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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Build a chicken house in a day

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

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...

Love Those Green Beans

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

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

Growing the Eternal Tomato

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Pickled Sweet Green Tomatoes

Bread — The staff of life

Tomato and basil sauce

Italian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Digging a shallow well

Homeschooling through high school

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Making and using a solar cooker

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Reload your own brass

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The light at the end of the gun

Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...