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Animals

Building

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Keyhole Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Fly it proudly and properly

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Remembering what grandma used

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Sight and sound enhancement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

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

Science and truth. Are they related?

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home, a 47-foot trailer in a mobile home park. While waiting...
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Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....
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