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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Once a day milking

Where our farm animals come from

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Small engine maintenance for women

By Michelle Richards Issue #24 • November/December, 1993 How many small engines do you have on your homestead? I counted mine the other day and came...

Build a Trail

Gabion walls for form and function

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Mid-season planting

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Constitution of the united States of America

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The time-travel ad

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

Food and recipes

Potato Latkes

Making sausage

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Filipino Chicken Stew

Self-reliance

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Homemade skin care products

Woodstove cooking

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

An $89 backup generator

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Tailoring guns to females

How to shoot a handgun accurately

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Air power superiority

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...