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Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Grow some winter squash this year

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Constitution of the united States of America

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Jerusalem artichokes with brown rice

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Emergency solar power for $950

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Losing our rights as we watch television

How do you save freedom in America?

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

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...

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Goat birthing and raising kids

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Caring for wounds in the field

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that if I don't learn at least one thing every day,...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...