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Animals

Raising your own beef

Slaughtering and Butchering

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build a graceful footbridge

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

Mid-season planting

Tracing a bean

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Food security 101: Part 1

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Succulent venison stew

Duck with Mushrooms

Self-reliance

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

The community treasure chest

Pump water for free

Learning to love the high desert

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Power your bug-out bag

Portable solar power

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...