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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

A house a tornado helped build

Build a pizza oven

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Testing Soil

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Mid-season planting

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

The vanishing outhouse

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Ruth’s old-fashioned zucchini pickles

Woodstove cooking

How to can chopped garlic

Self-reliance

Medicinal uses of garlic

Call me plumber

7 Mistakes of food storage

Flea market stories and strategies

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Generators alone are not enough

Portable solar power

Millenium Vehicles

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...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms and cold weather considerations

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

The Appleseed Project

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...