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    Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

    By Michael Hackleman Issue #61 • January/February, 2000   Solar-powered pumps have proved their worth for many installations worldwide, anywhere under the sun. However, in the northern hemisphere, a year-around spring located at the base of a...
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    Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

    By Michael Hackleman Issue #56 • March/April, 1999 Many readers of this magazine live in remote settings and generate their own electricity, often through solar, hydro, wind, or generator machines, storing the electricity generated in batteries....
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    What if the electricity GOES OFF?

    By Michael Hackleman Issue #55 • January/February, 1999 Just as everyone was getting ready to throw the party of the century and millennium—out with the old and in with the new—someone springs Y2K on us. Power...
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    Animals

    Slaughtering and Butchering

    By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

    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...

    Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

    Raising cattle on your own place

    Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

    How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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    Farm and Garden

    No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

    By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...
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    The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

    By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...
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