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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Build a poultry killing cone

Is that a good pig?

Building

Five building tricks for super strong framing

By Don Fallick Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 I was standing on the edge of the roof overhang, holding two bundles of asphalt shingles, when my...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Rural Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Currants and Gooseberries

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Catfish Biscuits

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

Food and recipes

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

Breakfast Cereal

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Baby bok choy with tofu

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Pump water for free

Disaster preparation!

Energy

An $89 backup generator

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Sight and sound enhancement

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Big boomer guns

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...