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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Where our farm animals come from

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

The $1 Garden

By Jonathan Nunan Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 The dollar garden is simple in concept: buy as many seeds as you can for one dollar and...

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

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:...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Add solar power to your truck camper

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

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...

A brief history of health and medicine

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Armed citizens: the deterrent factor

Getting the state out of marriage

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

By Glenn Willis, Jr. Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Several years ago my sister and her husband had an 8-horse gas-powered rototiller that went belly up. They fussed with it a bit, but couldn't get it...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to plant. When spring arrives you'll be ready. Spring is the best...