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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising your own beef

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Build a ski sled

Shake update

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Grandpa’s justice

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

A Native American feast

Wonderful wilderness wines

How to make kombucha

Ham & Kidney Bean Soup

Self-reliance

Power Up

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Buying the right emergency radio

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Reload your own brass

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...