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Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

By Amanda J. Kemp Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Spring brings the pitter-patter of little feet in the mud, games of tag, and raucous quacks. While...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more expensive every day. I've seen steaks "on sale" for more...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I parked, walked quickly into the house, and said to my...

Connie Rabun

Build a chicken tractor

Animals

Get to know your spiders

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Build a poultry killing cone

Self-Reliance

Harvest your own firewood

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals