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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Keeping homestead animals healthy

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

By Melissa Souza  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 My family is committed to becoming as self-sufficient...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

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...

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

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Buying the right emergency radio

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

How to select the right backup generator

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

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...

Raising your own beef for your family

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The added benefit of these newspaper pots is that they can...

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one garden pest is dealt with, another takes its place. Last...