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Animals

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

<!-- --> By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Building Eric’s house

Build a poultry killing cone

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

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

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Grandpa’s justice

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The summer of ’35

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu — Novel Influenza A (H1N1) —...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Time

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

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...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Once a day milking

Raising your own beef

Beekeeping basics

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

<!-- Gardening for treasure By Alice B. Yeager --> By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large or small varieties. Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 When we dig in...
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Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish to make it. One of the easiest ways...
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