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Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Build a wood crib with free materials

Make adobe bricks

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Growing Microgreens

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The barnyard scramble

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The Appleseed Project

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

How big a gun do you need?

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Zombie Apocalypse

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Brooder in a box

Goat birthing and raising kids

Is that a good pig?

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the Fall

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...
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Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s basically a method of recycling junk wood to make a...
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