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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Where our farm animals come from

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

The Forever Floor

Build a pizza oven

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Farm and Garden

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Naughty Peppers

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Food and recipes

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Breakfast Cereal

Salmon loaf

Self-reliance

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Storm survivors

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

10 ways to make money on your land

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...