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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

By James Ballou Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 A certain degree of self reliance is obtainable by those who have the knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, courage,...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

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

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The greatest American who was never President

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Constitution of the united States of America

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Cold weather shooting considerations

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

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...

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

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

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

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

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...