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Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Raising rabbits for profit

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Catfish Biscuits

The time-travel ad

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Chilies rellenos

Honey Roasted Pheasant

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Basic chicken broth

Self-reliance

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar suitcase

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...