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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising cattle on your own place

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

The Forever Floor

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Catfish Biscuits

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Canning game meat

Chocolate crinkles

Butterpeas

Waldorf salad

Self-reliance

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Buy your country place from the government

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Hydronic woodstoves

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Tailoring guns to females

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...