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Animals

Bottle-raise a calf

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

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

By Dynah Geissal Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 When we moved to our land in the summer of 1994, we were fortunate that open grazing exists...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Woodbarrow

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #164 • March/April, 2017 I’ve been growing peppers for more than 50 years now and can’t imagine a garden without them. There...

Gardening for Treasure

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Propagating Grapes

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Remembering what grandma used

The vanishing outhouse

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Make grape juice the easy way

Chicken Enchiladas

Beans for Sarah

Do you suffer from gout? Here are some recipes that might help

Self-reliance

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

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

10 country do’s and don’ts

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Battery powered weekend retreat

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...