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Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

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

Build a stone wall

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Farm and Garden

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Propagating Grapes

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

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

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quilts—the aspect...

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Fried chicken for breakfast

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

The light at the end of the gun

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

The coming ice age

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising your own beef

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

<!-- Fruit trees By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager -->By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...
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Slug Zapper

By Joel Winters Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 I live in a small clearing in a big forest. This is on the rainy side of the mountains in the Cascade foothills. Slugs are underfoot nearly year-round...
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