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This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

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

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...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

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

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Creamy white bean soup with kale

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Drive your own freshwater well

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Choose your ammo… police style

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...

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

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

My View: Three Cheers for Free Enterprise

What kind of Americans sit on our juries?

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

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

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Homeschooling through high school

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...