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Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

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...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Elegant desserts for entertaining

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

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Firearms — Tools of rural living

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

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...

Dealing with Liberals and History

Armed citizens: the deterrent factor

Biological & chemical terrorism

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Paring down for off-grid living

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to us. At one time, people gardened because home-grown produce was...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters in earthen berms to irrigation via "aquaduct," it seemed incredible...