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Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The greatest American who was never President

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home, a 47-foot trailer in a mobile home park. While waiting...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...