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Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Goat birthing and raising kids

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

By Jennifer Poindexter Issue #157 • January/February, 2016 Since my family is homesteading on a budget, the task of building a greenhouse had to be done...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Constitution of the united States of America

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The wonderful world of lavender

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

What to do when there’s no doctor

Is steam power in your future?

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Gun control, race, and rotten politicians

The world’s least-free country

Confessions of a former liberal

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

By Jackie Clay Issue #111 • May/June, 2008 It goes without saying that preparedness is not for "radicals" or "weirdos" anymore. I picked up a preparedness...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Every person who is striving for self-reliance should, and most do, plant a garden from which to raise a good portion of their own food. But how many...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in Newport, Oregon, and noticed a little Chinese lady flipping over...