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Animals

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

Get to know your spiders

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Breastfeeding — A primer

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at the end of the season. It's a lot of work,...

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...