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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Animal disease traceability

Is that a good pig?

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a barrel stove

By Nick Weston Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 This stove kept me warm and provided an excellent cooking surface for more than six months while I...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Building your chicken coop

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The vanishing outhouse

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Earth’s greatest cookies

You can become a hardcore forager

Hearty breakfast fillets

Zucchini with green chilies

Self-reliance

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Garden injuries

Power Up

Keeping tools sharp

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Generators alone are not enough

Solar power for farm and ranch

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Affordable firearms

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Politics and Commentary

The parasitic nature of bureaucracy

Of kids and guns

Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, ‘Hello.’

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Brooder in a box

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Self-Reliance

Bugging out in place

Bath herbs

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

A guide to buying silver and gold

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost of raising those birds, you could buy an awful lot...

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Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There are so many different varieties that no matter where you...

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