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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...

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

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

Biological & chemical terrorism

Home handgun defense — Simplicity suffices

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

By Linda Slate Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 While searching for a large quantity (five pounds or more) feeder for my backyard flock, I kept running...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one garden pest is dealt with, another takes its place. Last...

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I have a lot of "old reliable" varieties that I grow...