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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Is that a good pig?

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Building and stocking your pantry

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Constitution of the united States of America

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The vanishing outhouse

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Nameless salad and dressing

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Concord Sherbet

Self-reliance

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Teaching the joy of reading

Energy

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Sight and sound enhancement

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...