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Animals

Building

Make adobe bricks

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Last winter I got a phone call from an old friend in Arizona. One of his sons...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

The house that Dorothy built

Stairs — The next level

Shelves and benches

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Slug Zapper

Tracing a bean

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

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...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Remembering what grandma used

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

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

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Canning game meat

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

<!-- Subduction zone tsunami --> By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coast—actually, just that...

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

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

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Where our farm animals come from

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...
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Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....
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