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Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

Personal guns getting to be in style

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Advice from second-time homesteaders

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

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...

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 so fiercely as we did during World War II. We...