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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising cattle on your own place

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

Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build your own log home in the woods

New invention— The Fencerunner

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Baklava

Keep the Ice On

Pickled chili peppers

Spiced red beans

Self-reliance

Bugging out in place

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

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Start a fire in any weather

Energy

Build Your Own Car Wash

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Power-up bag

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

Firearms — Tools of rural living

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...