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Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Get to know your spiders

Building

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

By Claire Wolfe Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 December 2012. Welcome to my house as I first saw it. The door opens onto a dirt-floored room. It's...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Farm and Garden

Plant Once Harvest for Years

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 Year after year we start seeds, till the ground, plant, weed, harvest, then tear it all out at...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Remembering what grandma used

The barnyard scramble

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Pistachio-Mocha Chicken

Bread pudding

Self-reliance

Make a quilt out of Levis

Pump water for free

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Energy

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

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Power your bug-out bag

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...