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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Build a poultry killing cone

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build a compost tumbler

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Catfish Biscuits

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Huckleberries purple gold

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Heart healthy recipes

Self-reliance

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

City boy, country boy

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Energy

Homemade electric power

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Keep the Ice On

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Of guns and snakes

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Big boomer guns

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...