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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising your own beef for your family

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

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

A house a tornado helped build

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Build a pizza oven

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Potato Bread

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Czarist Chicken Salad

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Self-reliance

No dentist? Oh, no!

Cash in on your household junk

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Politics and Commentary

Looking back on 20 years of BHM

Animal rights loonies save the chickens but ruin the County Fair

Our ‘unenumerated’ rights

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Beekeeping basics

Slaughtering and Butchering

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The homestead cat

Self-Reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Survival storeroom

Disaster preparation!

Homestead water

Farm and Garden

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...

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Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....

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