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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Build a community assistance recharging station

Battery powered weekend retreat

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

The Government intimidation factor and its effect on the health of society

Introducing the international tax cartel

Talking to your kids about death

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

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...

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic without having to hover over it, hoping that it produces....