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Where our farm animals come from

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Buy your country place from the government

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Build your own battery charging station

Battery powered weekend retreat

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Cold weather shooting considerations

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

Concealed carry laws reduce crime

Loading the gun for a dictatorship

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Teach your kids math with the banking game

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country. Okra is of African origin and the seeds could have...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...