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Animals

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....

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

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

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Home-Grown Eggs

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Okra — Not Just for the South

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

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:...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The vanishing outhouse

Catfish Biscuits

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Canning game meat

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Just because

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Zombie Apocalypse

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Where our farm animals come from

<!-- Where our farm animals come from By John Silveira --> Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising your own beef

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Is that a good pig?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country. Okra is of African origin and the seeds could have...
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Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods our hearts desire. But the prices in the nursery catalogs...
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