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Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Firearms and cold weather considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Many of our readers have established their abodes in places which, during the winter months, do not exactly...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The current ‘Gun control’ push — A cop’s eye view

Why you may want to get a stress test

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Where our farm animals come from

Finding the best dog for the country life

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

I heat my house by burning corn

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only in fooling those pesky pests who thrive on fruits and...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost of raising those birds, you could buy an awful lot...