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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Where our farm animals come from

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Gabion walls for form and function

Build your own log home in the woods

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

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

How to become a backyard beekeeper

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...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

The Electoral College — How we elect the President

Dark Winter — A simulated terrorist attack on three American cities using weaponized smallpox

Can the U.N. Ban America’s Guns?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

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...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...