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Animals

Redworm farming

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Sweet Potato Greens

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Vegetable Salad with Yogurt Dressing

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Chicken chili

Feeding large families without breaking the bank

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — A primer

Garden injuries Part 2

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

What to do when there’s no doctor

Energy

Is steam power in your future?

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How big a gun do you need?

Choose your ammo… police style

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The many benefits of garlic

Theories of the universe

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Politics and Commentary

A Republic vs. A Democracy

Self-reliance equals freedom

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Turn the poor into capitalists