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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Build a poultry killing cone

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Home Dairying

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Farm and Garden

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

Caring for your chickens in winter

The Best City Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

The time-travel ad

Grandpa’s justice

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Introduction to water bath canning

Braised rabbit with red wine

Veal Goulash

Huckleberries purple gold

Self-reliance

Preparing for winter

Picking your pressure canner — All American or Presto?

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

7 Mistakes of food storage

Energy

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

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

How to select the right backup generator

Power-up bag

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Moderate power firearms

Choose your ammo… police style

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...