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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

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

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build Your Own Car Wash

Farm and Garden

Grow Your Own Dishrags

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Some of us are thrifty beyond measure, even growing our own dishrags. None...

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Catfish Biscuits

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Pears in Caramel Syrup

Easy homemade dairy products

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

A guide to buying silver and gold

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Prepper power! Part 1

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Build Your Own Car Wash

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...