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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Animal disease traceability

Raising your own beef

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My long time friend Hearold Ruby passed away. Death came as sort of a reprieve. He'd been...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Install rafters alone the easy way

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Fruit Trees

Tracing a bean

Blueberry Cash Crop

How to Grow Potatoes

Americana and History

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

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Fly it proudly and properly

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Breakfast Cereal

Honey Roasted Pheasant

Basic brown stock

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Build Your Own Car Wash

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

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...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...