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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Build a chicken house in a day

Making and using a solar cooker

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Caring for your chickens in winter

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Your survival depends on water

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Build your own battery charging station

Is steam power in your future?

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Cold weather shooting considerations

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Let’s stop apologizing for guns

The state of freedom in America

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

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

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

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...