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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Once a day milking

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

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My long time friend Hearold Ruby passed away. Death came as sort of a reprieve. He'd been...

Easy awnings

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Our Unconventional House

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

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

Currants and Gooseberries

Blueberry Cash Crop

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Fried chicken for breakfast

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Preserving plums

Pickled chili peppers

Food security 101: Part 1

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Pump water for free

What to do when there’s no doctor

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Energy

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar hot water systems

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Building the coyote rifle

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...