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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising Rabbits

Is that a good pig?

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 graceful footbridge

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Three Raised Bed Designs

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Remembering what grandma used

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

How to tell a bad egg

Persimmon cookies

Venison — From the Field to the Fork

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Self-reliance

Fire resistant property

Raising kids simply

Cut your grocery bill in half

Buying a used mobile home

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Build Your Own Car Wash

Waterpower for personal use

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...