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Animals

Get to know your spiders

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

By Bill Leonard Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 You can say a great deal in favor of cement block (or, if you prefer, concrete block) building....

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Meat For the Homestead

Mid-season planting

Tea for the garden

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...

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

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

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

Food and recipes

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Basic chicken broth

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Pastoral bread

Self-reliance

A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective — A woman’s opinion

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Thoughts on ammunition

How big a gun do you need?

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...