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Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Meat For the Homestead

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Of guns and snakes

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

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...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Gee-Whiz: Time

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising your own beef

Redworm farming

Finding the best dog for the country life

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None of those flimsy, store bought cotton things for us. Our...
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Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing   More and more people are turning to electric fences as the cost of standard metal and wood...
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