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A contrary guide to feeding animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Install rafters alone the easy way

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Constitution of the united States of America

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

The dandelion is a healthful, great tasting weed you can eat

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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...

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

The light at the end of the gun

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XII — The militarization of America’s police forces

Justice Breyer is wrong about the 2nd Amendment

Want proof of luck, ESP, and psychic powers?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

A guide to buying silver and gold

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...