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Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Love Those Green Beans

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Anyone with some gardening space, a sunny location, and good loamy soil with pH 6.0-7.5 can grow...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

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

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

That old survivalist mumbo jumbo and 10 reasons why it makes sense

Tackling the real problems that face us

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Paring down for off-grid living

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....