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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build a wood crib with free materials

By Mark R. Roach Issue #156 • November/December, 2015 Trying to stack wood so it stays up without falling can be a challenge. Just when you...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

How safe is your electric fence?

Build a Composter

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Blueberry Cash Crop

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The barnyard scramble

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Pears in Caramel Syrup

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Picnicking with class!

Self-reliance

Preparedness for travelers

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Making maple syrup

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Emergency solar power for $950

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

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...

Big boomer guns

Choose your ammo… police style

Sight and sound enhancement

Canning game meat

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...