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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

The homestead cat

Where our farm animals come from

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

By David Lee Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Curse or not, times are interesting....

Build a pallet fence

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

Build a log crib

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Naughty Peppers

Build Your Own Hoop House

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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....

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Basic biscotti cookie

Sweet pepper salad

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Shiitake mushrooms

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Advice from second-time homesteaders

The many benefits of garlic

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Energy

Solar system codes — Build it right!

Energy class: Part 1

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...