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Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Gabion walls for form and function

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Constitution of the united States of America

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The art of living in small spaces

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

Some thoughts on growing older in the backwoods

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

Putting it all on the Amtrak line for Self-Reliance magazine

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Where our farm animals come from

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Buying the right emergency radio

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....