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Animals

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

Get to know your spiders

Raising Rabbits

Beekeeping basics

Building

Building Eric’s house

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #112 • July/August, 2009 This is the first in a series of several articles documenting the building of a stud-frame house from...

Build a pizza oven

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

Growing and Using Peppers

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Meat For the Homestead

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Bread pudding

Nameless salad and dressing

Plantation Coffee Punch

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

Essential oils

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Tale of a country family

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Battery powered weekend retreat

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Air power superiority

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Moderate power firearms

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...