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Animals

Redworm farming

The homestead cat

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Good-bye old friend

Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

A house a tornado helped build

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

The Forever Floor

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Companion Planting

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Growing Productive Strawberries

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Aunt Mildred’s honey cake

Hamentaschen

Successful cold storage

Self-reliance

Survival infection control

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Homestead water

Energy

Waterpower for personal use

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Add solar power to your truck camper

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

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...

Canning game meat

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The light at the end of the gun

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...