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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Finding the best dog for the country life

Once a day milking

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Install rafters alone the easy way

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Build a Keyhole Garden

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Apple-Mango Scallops

Jamaican Beef Patties

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

Buying the right emergency radio

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Earning money from home

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

The light at the end of the gun

Building the coyote rifle

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...