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Animals

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Raising your own beef

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Solar Building Design

A cabin for one

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

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

The $1 Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

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...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Canning chickens for the pantry

Corned Beef Cakes

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Stuffed sweet peppers

Self-reliance

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Earning money from home

Preparing for civil unrest

Energy

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Is steam power in your future?

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Building the coyote rifle

Moderate power firearms

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...