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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Home Dairying

Build a poultry killing cone

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

How to maintain a dirt road

Build an attached solar greenhouse

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Building and stocking your pantry

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

The Best City Garden

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Grandpa’s justice

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

Fly it proudly and properly

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Fig preserves

General Tso’s Chicken

Make grape juice the easy way

Ashe Torsh

Self-reliance

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Choosing a chain saw

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Energy

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

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Building the coyote rifle

Choose your ammo… police style

Reload your own brass

Canning game meat

Science

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,...

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Beautiful Women

What is reality?

My View: Gaining an Appreciation for Risk

Guns Save Lives Chapter 1: Point Blank