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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising your own beef for your family

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

The house that Dorothy built

Build a Trail

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

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...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Fermenting Chicken Feed

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

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...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Tastes Just Like Chicken

Coconut Rice Pudding

Self-reliance

A worthwhile journey

Medicinal uses of garlic

Homestead water

How to maintain your chimney

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar power trailer Part 2

Hydronic woodstoves

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...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...