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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Beekeeping basics

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Building a $3,000 Barn

Build a chicken house in a day

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

Growing and Using Peppers

Growing the Eternal Tomato

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Fiery Frittata

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Bean-beef casserole

Self-reliance

Life-saving snowshoes

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Teaching the joy of reading

Energy

Homemade electric power

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...