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Animals

Brooder in a box

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

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...

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

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

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Naughty Peppers

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The time-travel ad

Catfish Biscuits

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Food and recipes

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Woodstove cooking

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Blonde brownies

Self-reliance

Life-saving snowshoes

Start a fire in any weather

A young couple moves to the country

Homestead water

Energy

Generators alone are not enough

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

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

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

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...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Sight and sound enhancement

Use the right ammunition!

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...