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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Build a pizza oven

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

Build a stone wall

Build a Trail

Farm and Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray  Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is...

Build Your Own Hoop House

How to become a backyard beekeeper

How to Grow Potatoes

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Salmon loaf

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Asparagus Pasta Salad

Self-reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Turn your passion into a business

Food security 101

Energy

Portable solar power

Prepper power! Part 2

Keep the Ice On

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

The Appleseed Project

By Massad Ayoob Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 There is nothing else in the shooting world quite like the Appleseed Project, which combines American Revolutionary War...

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms and cold weather considerations

How big a gun do you need?

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...