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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Home Dairying

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Build a barrel stove

Easy awnings

Making and using a solar cooker

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Meat For the Homestead

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

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

The vanishing outhouse

Biological and chemical weapons through history

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Food and recipes

Tomato and basil sauce

Cheddar Breakfast Pizza

Braised rabbit with red wine

Pasteurizing milk

Self-reliance

Keeping tools sharp

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Fully Involved

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Water pumping windmills

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Building the coyote rifle

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Reload your own brass

Catch your own bait

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...