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Animals

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

Raising rabbits for profit

Once a day milking

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a stone wall

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

New invention— The Fencerunner

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The vanishing outhouse

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

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

Food and recipes

Keep the Ice On

Layered casserole

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Boiled crawfish

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Cast iron

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Energy

Water pumping windmills

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Tailoring guns to females

Use the right ammunition!

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Moderate power firearms

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...