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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Where our farm animals come from

Goat birthing and raising kids

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

By Claire Wolfe Issue #76 • July/August, 2002 I awoke last night to a circle of moonlight reflected on a wall. It was so vivid I...

Make adobe bricks

Building a $3,000 Barn

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

Three Raised Bed Designs

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

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

The greatest American who was never President

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Boston Baked Beans

Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long

Spiced red beans

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Self-reliance

Earning money from home

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

10 ways to make money on your land

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

An $89 backup generator

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 Everything's getting more expensive. Food. Gasoline. Guns and ammunition. Not everyone who appreciates the rural lifestyle was "born...

Big boomer guns

Of guns and snakes

Use the right ammunition!

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

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,...