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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising your own beef

Finding the best dog for the country life

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Build a chicken tractor

Build your own portable forge

Build a Composter

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

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

Growing and Using Peppers

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Pistachios — Historic and healthy nuts

Baked Spaghetti

Galumbki

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

What to do when there’s no doctor

7 Mistakes of food storage

Make a quilt out of Levis

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Job site solar power

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How big a gun do you need?

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...