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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising cattle on your own place

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Build a pallet fence

A cabin for one

Claw Hammers

Farm and Garden

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...

Build Your Own Hoop House

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Okra — Not Just for the South

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

How to can chopped garlic

The chicken and the egg

Root vegetable casserole

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

Turn your passion into a business

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Energy

Job site solar power

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Affordable firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Canning game meat

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...