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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

A contrary guide to feeding animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build Your Own Hoop House

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Growing Microgreens

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Fly it proudly and properly

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Dilled oyster crackers

Bread — The staff of life

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Self-reliance

Homemade pest traps

Cold process goat milk soap

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build Your Own Car Wash

An $89 backup generator

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Picking a holster

Canning game meat

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Moderate power firearms

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...