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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Bottle-raise a calf

Get to know your spiders

Building

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The homesteading lifestyle can require a number of tools to cultivate the garden, maintain the home, repair the...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

How to maintain a dirt road

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Naughty Peppers

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Three Raised Bed Designs

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Breakfast Cereal

Fail-proof white bread

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Self-reliance

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Call me plumber

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Energy

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...