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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Tomato-Avocado-Buttermilk Soup

How to organize an outdoor canning party

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build your own battery charging station

Powering medical equipment during a utility blackout

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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,...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

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

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

Personal guns getting to be in style

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

The world’s least-free country

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Turn your passion into a business

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they produced, so when I eventually acquired property in Montana, I...

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...