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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build a wood crib with free materials

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this,...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

The Home Citrus Orchard

Slug Zapper

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The vanishing outhouse

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Maple Spiced Broiled Salmon

Broccoli and Ziti

Wonderful wilderness wines

Self-reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

The fire wick fire starter

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Energy

An $89 backup generator

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Air power superiority

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

How big a gun do you need?

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...