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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Redworm farming

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a compost tumbler

By Joe Mooney Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 A few years back, I caught myself becoming a bit frustrated with my compost pile. It seemed that...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Farm and Garden

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 My grandson Tommy was probably 50 feet up off the ground when he hollered, "Catch this one,...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Victory Gardens

Build a Composter

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Fail-proof white bread

Baked Bean Soup

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Braised rabbit with red wine

Self-reliance

Raising kids simply

Drive your own freshwater well

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Energy

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Prepper power! Part 1

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

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,...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Choose your ammo… police style

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Reload your own brass

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...