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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising your own beef for your family

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

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Build a chicken house in a day

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

A simple backwoods hay baler

Shelves and benches

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

The Homestead Greenhouse

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Dishpan cookies

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Self-reliance

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Tale of a country family

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Energy class: Part 1

Solar-powered refrigerators

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Sight and sound enhancement

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Choose your ammo… police style

Big boomer guns

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...