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Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising your own beef for your family

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Constitution of the united States of America

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...

Who’s supposed to protect our rights?

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

The Government intimidation factor and its effect on the health of society

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one, Grandpa!" With those words of warning he dropped another gunny...