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Animals

Raising Rabbits

Redworm farming

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Good-bye old friend

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Build your own log home in the woods

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Our Unconventional House

Build a chicken house in a day

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

Grow some winter squash this year

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

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

Build a Keyhole Garden

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

How to make kombucha

Hawaiian poha jam

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Make a Sure-Fire Live Trap

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Power your bug-out bag

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Just because

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...