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Animals

Once a day milking

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising rabbits for profit

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Build a log crib

Rural Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Fruit Trees

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Remembering what grandma used

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Stuffed sweet peppers

Sourdough simplified

Broiled fish fillet with piri piri sauce

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Self-reliance

Take care of your knife

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Life-saving snowshoes

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Energy

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

Solar Building Design

Emergency solar power for $950

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...