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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

How to maintain a dirt road

By Marjorie Burris Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 It is our job to maintain two and one half miles of dirt road if we want to...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Victory Gardens

Saving Seeds

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Lazy housewife pickles

Red flannel hash

Hoppin’ John with fresh asparagus beans

Apple-Mango Scallops

Self-reliance

Drive your own freshwater well

Making maple syrup

13 steps to a life of freedom

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...