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Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

Start a self-sufficiency garden even in a cramped apartment

Swiss chard — The leaf vegetable that keeps on giving!

Saving seeds

Fermenting Chicken Feed

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Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a barrel stove

Build a pizza oven

Build your own portable forge

Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Raising your own beef

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 Do rural homeowners need guns for self-defense? Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, according to Ayoob's experience,...

The rationale of the automatic rifle

By Massad Ayoob Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 There are those who would ban private citizens' ownership of semiautomatic rifles. After 27 years of carrying a...

Book Review: Armed Response

By Brian Kendall Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 Armed Response, by David Kenik, has as its subtitle, A Comprehensive Guide to Using Firearms for Self-Defense. Comparing...

Self-Reliance

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Making apple pectin

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 One day, as I walked past an apple tree that was naturally thinning its fruit by dropping tiny,...