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Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

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...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

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

I heat my house by burning corn

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

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...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...

Robert L. Williams

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build an all-purpose ladder

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

A house a tornado helped build

Animals

Brooder in a box

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Get to know your spiders

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Animal disease traceability

Build a poultry killing cone

Self-Reliance

Preparing for civil unrest