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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Once a day milking

Raising your own beef

Animal disease traceability

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a Groundhog Snare

Three Raised Bed Designs

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

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....

Growing Productive Strawberries

The Homestead Greenhouse

Testing Soil

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Fried chicken for breakfast

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

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Pizza Casserole

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

7 Mistakes of food storage

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Take care of your knife

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...