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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Five building tricks for super strong framing

A house a tornado helped build

Gabion walls for form and function

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Constitution of the united States of America

The summer of ’35

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Chicken San Francisco

Tomato and coriander salad

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Apple and Potato Soup

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Teaching the joy of reading

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Dim bulbs in California

Keep the Ice On

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...