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Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Building and stocking your pantry

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Science and truth. Are they related?

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Activists on both the left and the right spotlight a broken federal government

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Your survival depends on water

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

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

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything you could need and with online shopping, you don’t even...

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done by using a water-based nutrient solution to deliver the necessary...