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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef for your family

Beekeeping basics

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Woodbarrow

Building and using wattle fences

The house that Dorothy built

Build a ski sled

Farm and Garden

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The vanishing outhouse

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Blueberry tofu frappe

Raspberry chocolate torte

Self-reliance

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

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

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Energy

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...