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Animals

Home Dairying

Raising Rabbits

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

A river rock shower

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 The finished shower weighs a ton and cost about $800. Cultured stones, made of pumice and portland cement, weigh about...

How safe is your electric fence?

Shelves and benches

How to Install a Steel Roof

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Saving Seeds

By Jackie Clay Issue #129 • May/June, 2011 I go through dozens of garden seed catalogs in preparation for each year's new (and better!) garden. I...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Avoiding common canning mistakes

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Self-reliance

Cash in on your household junk

7 Mistakes of food storage

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Keep the Ice On

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Canning game meat

Catch your own bait

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...