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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Once a day milking

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

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

By David Lee Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 The reflected image in the mirrored letters give a "see-through" illusion to the sign and the tree. Stained glass...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

How to build a good fence for your homestead

A simple backwoods hay baler

Farm and Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Build a Composter

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Apple Coffee Cake

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Fried Foods

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Preparing for civil unrest

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...