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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Grow some winter squash this year

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Drive your own freshwater well

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

A brief history of health and medicine

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster

Reflections on the Second Amendment

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Beekeeping basics

Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Bees have been managed for their honey production for about 5000 years or so. Especially for the...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 If you are prudish, narrow-minded or puritanical, read no further as this article may offend you. If, however, you enjoy a good laugh...

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my own plants from seeds. One of my favorite winter pastimes...