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Where our farm animals come from

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Old-fashioned meat pie casserole

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Cold weather shooting considerations

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...

A brief history of health and medicine

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

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...

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

A guide to buying silver and gold

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply is a primary objective. To that end, some consideration will...

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...