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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Home Dairying

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

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

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Propagating Grapes

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues

Lentil and meat stew

Bean-beef casserole

Easy homemade dairy products

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Survival firebuilding skills

Make a quilt out of Levis

This country job really rocks

Energy

Solar Food Drying

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

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Air power superiority

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...