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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

Growing Microgreens

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Tracing a bean

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Remembering what grandma used

Grandpa’s justice

The greatest American who was never President

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Moderate power firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Robert Ruark, the great American writer of the mid-Twentieth Century, was also a big game hunter. One of...

Building the coyote rifle

The light at the end of the gun

Of guns and snakes

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

By Jackie Clay Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 If you think milk and beef are expensive in the grocery store, then you should think about raising...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Build a poultry killing cone

Goat birthing and raising kids

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as you wish to make it. One of the easiest ways...
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Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....
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