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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Shelves and benches

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

The vanishing outhouse

Remembering what grandma used

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Hummus

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

Vegetable Scramble

Self-reliance

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Bugging out in place

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Solar suitcase

Homemade electric power

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Women and guns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Picking a holster

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...