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Building

Easy awnings

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 A window without an awning is like a lamp without a shade — bare and glaring. In my...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Renovating old walls

Build a stone wall

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop garden—one that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

How to Grow Garlic

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The summer of ’35

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Just because

Cold weather shooting considerations

Choose your ammo… police style

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018   Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Zombie Apocalypse

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Politics and Commentary

Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...
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Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...
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