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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Once a day milking

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

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Building

Build a chicken tractor

By Connie Rabun Issue #127 • January/February, 2011 In the beginning we had chickens...and no coop! Any homesteader knows that the number one rule is to...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Gabion walls for form and function

Build a graceful footbridge

Farm and Garden

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

How to Grow Garlic

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Home-Grown Eggs

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Hamburger soup

Self-reliance

Shopping to beat inflation

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Drive your own freshwater well

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Millenium Vehicles

Power-up bag

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...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Cold weather shooting considerations

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

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...