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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Install rafters alone the easy way

The Forever Floor

Renovating old walls

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Build a Composter

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The greatest American who was never President

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Dehydrating food

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Baby bok choy with tofu

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Swedish log candle

Preparing for civil unrest

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Is steam power in your future?

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Choose your ammo… police style

How to shoot a handgun accurately

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...