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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Good-bye old friend

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Make adobe bricks

Build a chicken tractor

Making and using a solar cooker

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Growing and Using Peppers

Three Raised Bed Designs

Propagating Plants

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

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

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Southern mint julep

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

My garden — A springboard of food, pleasure, and history

Self-reliance

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Survival/utility vest

Essential oils

The fire wick fire starter

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Affordable firearms

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...