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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build a wood crib with free materials

By Mark R. Roach Issue #156 • November/December, 2015 Trying to stack wood so it stays up without falling can be a challenge. Just when you...

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Make adobe bricks

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Home-Grown Eggs

Propagating Plants

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The greatest American who was never President

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Fried chicken for breakfast

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Creating and maintaining your own sourdough starter

Pot Roast With Spaghetti

Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin sweet bread with walnuts

Cajun-baked turnip

Self-reliance

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

The art of living in small spaces

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar suitcase

Solar power trailer Part 1

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...