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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

New invention— The Fencerunner

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Woodbarrow

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Home-Grown Eggs

Slug Zapper

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Cheesy fish chowder

Stewed tomatoes

Hamentaschen

How to can chopped garlic

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

New yarn from old sweaters

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Job site solar power

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Use the right ammunition!

Big boomer guns

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...