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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Raising cattle on your own place

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

How to Install a Steel Roof

How safe is your electric fence?

Make adobe bricks

Easy awnings

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Propagating Plants

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Catfish Biscuits

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

A Native American feast

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Four Pepper Pheasant

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Self-reliance

City boy, country boy

10 country do’s and don’ts

Medical kits for self-reliant families

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Solar-powered refrigerators

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Sight and sound enhancement

Just because

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Politics and Commentary

Fixing a broken jury system

Why I’m nice to telemarketers

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Tackling the real problems that face us