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Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Is that a good pig?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Home Dairying

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Shake update

Build Your Own Hoop House

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

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...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Build a Keyhole Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Making baby food at home

Demystifying real rye bread

Sourdough simplified

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

Harvest your own firewood

Caveman walking stick

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Build Your Own Car Wash

Millenium Vehicles

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

The coming ice age

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Stumbling over your own stupidity

Of kids and guns

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reining in local government

Animals

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

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...

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

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef for your family

Self-Reliance

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Making apple pectin

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of elderberry cordial. When served in a small aperitif glass or...

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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 you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...

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