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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef for your family

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Solar Building Design

Building a $3,000 Barn

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Grandpa’s justice

Constitution of the united States of America

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Nana V’s fire sauce

Growing and Using Cilantro

Uncooked Peanut-butter Candy

Blanching vegetables

Self-reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Caring for wounds in the field

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Food security 101: part 2

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar-powered chicken coop

Energy class: Part 3

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

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...