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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Redworm farming

Once a day milking

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Build a chicken house in a day

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

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;...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Catfish Biscuits

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Canning game meat

Dehydrating eggs at home

Garlic Soup

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Make your own firestarters

Dealing with heat stress

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Build your own battery charging station

Emergency solar power for $950

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Cold weather shooting considerations

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...