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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Redworm farming

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Animal disease traceability

Building

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Three Raised Bed Designs

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Farm and Garden

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

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Growing Strawberries

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

By John Silveira Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 It was one of those days I love. We were between deadlines and Dave, Bill, Mac, and I...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Zucchini casserole

Herbed cheese

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Self-reliance

Defeating debt

Preparing for civil unrest

There’s no such thing as free land!

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Portable solar power

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

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,...

Canning game meat

Reload your own brass

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Just because

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...