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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Beekeeping basics

Home Dairying

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

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

Build a chicken house in a day

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Tea for the garden

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The vanishing outhouse

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Mint julep non-alcoholic

Pickled chili peppers

Dark moons

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

The community treasure chest

Paring down for off-grid living

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Energy class: Part 1

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Guns and Hunting

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...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

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...