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Building

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #50 Mar/Apr 1998 BHM readers are familiar with Dorothy Ainsworth, the log home-building Ashland, Oregon, waitress who spent more than six years...

Building your chicken coop

Claw Hammers

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Growing and Using Peppers

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

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,...

Fly it proudly and properly

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Choose your ammo… police style

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

The Appleseed Project

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising cattle on your own place

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...
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Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet. For the past five years or so, I have read...
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