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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a log crib

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 Baby Zane is probably the only newborn in Hollywood sleeping in a log crib made by his grandmother...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

How safe is your electric fence?

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Buy your country place from the government

Start your food storage on $10 a week

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Solar system codes — Build it right!

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...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The attack on Colin Powell prompts questions I’m not supposed to ask

The burglar does far more than steal!

The parasitic nature of bureaucracy

Good-bye old friend

By Lucy Shober Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 Big Poney died today. He was 34 years old and had been going down pretty rapidly over this...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 As a veterinary field technician for more than 20 years, I saw firsthand the frustration and heartbreak when...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Grow some winter squash this year

By Lisa Nourse I love summertime — I love the green of the trees, the warm weather, and growing my own food. I especially love growing vegetables that will store well and provide that great...

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...