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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Raising your own beef for your family

Good-bye old friend

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Rural Building

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

The Home Citrus Orchard

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Grandpa’s justice

Catfish Biscuits

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Artichoke-Spinach Casserole

Basic brown stock

Food security 101: Part 1

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

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

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

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

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 2

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Sight and sound enhancement

Air power superiority

Of guns and snakes

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Theories of the universe

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

Turn the poor into capitalists

A reason for the Second Amendment

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Loading the gun for a dictatorship