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Animals

Raising your own beef

Brooder in a box

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Get to know your spiders

Building

Our Unconventional House

By Judy Zent Website Exclusive • December, 2002 Fig. 1 - Tire walls with roof framing. Need a prolonged workout? Want to do some major recycling? Want...

A house a tornado helped build

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Shake update

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Tea for the garden

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:...

The vanishing outhouse

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Catfish Biscuits

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Making delicious, unthinkable wines

Crabapple jelly

Raspberry ketchup

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Self-reliance

A guide to buying silver and gold

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Bugging out in place

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Energy

Power your bug-out bag

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

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...

Sight and sound enhancement

Moderate power firearms

Use the right ammunition!

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...