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Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

The poor man’s ceramic knife sharpener

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a stone wall

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Garden Spaces for Small Places

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Women and guns

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

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

<!-- Subduction zone tsunami --> By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coast—actually, just that...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

The coming ice age

A brief history of health and medicine

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Where our farm animals come from

<!-- Where our farm animals come from By John Silveira --> Issue #105 • May/June, 2007 We don't know how far back the domestication of animals goes. But we...

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

Bottle-raise a calf

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

By Jackie Clay Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 During the crispy fall afternoons, we listen often and intently to the weather forecasts. "It's going to be clear tonight," I'd tell my late husband, Bob, and my...
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Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet. For the past five years or so, I have read...
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