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Animals

Beekeeping basics

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Bottle-raise a calf

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Gabion walls for form and function

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Fruit Trees

Home-Grown Eggs

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

The summer of ’35

The greatest American who was never President

The vanishing outhouse

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Challah

Braised venison pepper steak

Succulent venison stew

A few favorite recipes and books

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Turn your passion into a business

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Millenium Vehicles

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Just because

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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...