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Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Grow some winter squash this year

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

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

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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) ...

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

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

Understanding the gun debate, part 2

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising cattle on your own place

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

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

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...