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A contrary guide to feeding animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

A house a tornado helped build

Build your own log home in the woods

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

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....

Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Build your own battery charging station

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Turn the poor into capitalists

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth, "gleaning" refers to poor people being allowed to follow a...

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....