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    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 placed where children under the age of 5 will be...
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    Animals

    Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

    By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

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

    By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

    Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

    Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

    Home Dairying

    The homestead cat

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    Farm and Garden

    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...
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    Home-Grown Eggs

    By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at 4:00 AM by a rooster singing “cock-a-doodle-doo.” At this time...
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