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How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Finding the best dog for the country life

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

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

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Your survival depends on water

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

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

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

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...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Losing our rights as we watch television

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Defunding government is a sensible voter solution to reining in local government

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Finding the best dog for the country life

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

What to do when there’s no doctor

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....

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

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between our fingers. And so, while most avid gardeners let Mother...