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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Where our farm animals come from

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

A river rock shower

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 The finished shower weighs a ton and cost about $800. Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

A cabin for one

Build an attached solar greenhouse

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

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

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

How to Grow Great Carrots

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Fly it proudly and properly

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Pickled chili peppers

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Caribbean Barbecued Pork Steaks

Fudge macaroon pie

Self-reliance

Wash day

Shopping to beat inflation

No dentist? Oh, no!

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar power trailer Part 2

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Just because

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Big boomer guns

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

The world is ending! … Again?

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Politics and Commentary

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?

Getting rich through generosity

Understanding the gun debate, part 1

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Animals

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...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Circle of friends

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until dusk? Do you really need to raise enough vegetables to...

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Tracing a bean

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....

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