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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build a poultry killing cone

Get to know your spiders

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Building your chicken coop

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Victory Gardens

Growing the Eternal Tomato

The Homestead Greenhouse

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

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...

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Grandpa’s justice

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Blunt family chili

Chicken Saltimbocca with Escarole

Home canning safety tips

Self-reliance

Power your bug-out bag

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Moderate power firearms

Air power superiority

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

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...