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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

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

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Making and using a solar cooker

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The light at the end of the gun

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...

A brief history of health and medicine

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Our energy crisis Part 1 — It’s our creation, but we can fix it

The Newtown atrocity and “gun control”

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

Turn the poor into capitalists

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None of those flimsy, store bought cotton things for us. Our...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic without having to hover over it, hoping that it produces....