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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising your own beef for your family

Redworm farming

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...

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build Your Own Hoop House

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Farm and Garden

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...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Sweet Potato Greens

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

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....

The vanishing outhouse

Catfish Biscuits

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Lentil and meat stew

Chow-chow

Six Chile Chicken

Pasteurizing milk

Self-reliance

Dehydrating eggs at home

Raising kids simply

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Clean up your act!

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Big boomer guns

The Appleseed Project

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...