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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

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...

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....

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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Build a poultry killing cone

Build a Groundhog Snare

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a Groundhog Snare

Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

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

Slaughtering and Butchering

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Self-Reliance

Survival storeroom

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

Storm survivors

Farm and Garden

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

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