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Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Meat For the Homestead

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Propagating Plants

Okra — Not Just for the South

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

The vanishing outhouse

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Science

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...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

How big is the solar system?

The many benefits of garlic

Zombie Apocalypse

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

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...

Where our farm animals come from

Raising cattle on your own place

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...
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Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...
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