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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a Groundhog Snare

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Great Carrots

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 Carrots are an old-time homesteader favorite. They can be frozen, canned, dehydrated, or simply stored in a cool...

Victory Gardens

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Home-Grown Eggs

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Black beans and rice

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Self-reliance

Start a post-construction cleaning business

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Energy

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build Your Own Car Wash

Emergency solar power for $950

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...