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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Where our farm animals come from

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a Heated Germination Bed

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Build a Composter

How to Grow Garlic

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Remembering what grandma used

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

You can become a hardcore forager

Dill-onion bread

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

Disaster preparation!

Medicinal uses of garlic

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Energy

Dim bulbs in California

Energy class: Part 1

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How big a gun do you need?

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...