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Animals

Animal disease traceability

Bottle-raise a calf

Raising Rabbits

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

By Doug Fluckiger Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 My secret passion is tall, dark, and handsome. I may find her lying luxuriantly among a dark grove...

Building and stocking your pantry

Making and using a solar cooker

How to Install a Steel Roof

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Apples and sweet potatoes

Linguini with Clam Sauce

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Cannellini Bean And Mushroom Casserole

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Space heater safety tips

Storm survivors

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Keep the Ice On

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Catch your own bait

Choose your ammo… police style

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...