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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Bovine basics for beginners

Redworm farming

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Building

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

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

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a log crib

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Home-Grown Eggs

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Buckboard bacon

Chicken with galanga in coconut milk soup

Fresh cucumber delight

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Bartering for bad times

Tips for finding your affordable home

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Just because

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...