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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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    Millenium Vehicles

    By Michael Hackleman Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 A major failing of transportation worldwide is that 99.9% of vehicles on farms, street, and freeways work on one energy source: liquid fuels. In any disaster—small or large,...
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    Animals

    Once a day milking

    By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

    How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

    By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

    Raising Rabbits

    Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

    Brooder in a box

    Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

    Self-Reliance

    Farm and Garden

    Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

    By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop garden—one that keeps you busy from dawn until dusk? Do you really need to raise enough vegetables to...
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    Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

    By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...
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