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Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising Rabbits

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Building Eric’s house

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Sweet Potato Greens

Slug Zapper

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...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Potato Bread

Pheasant and dumplings

Persimmon cookies

Middle Eastern breads

Self-reliance

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Bath herbs

Lessons learned from an ice storm

Homemade pest traps

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Moderate power firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Air power superiority

Big boomer guns

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...

How big is the solar system?

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Climate Change Theory: science or religion?

Can America be Saved from Stupid People?

Why bureaucracy will likely destroy America

Questions about global warming