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Animals

Building

New invention— The Fencerunner

By Dietmar Berg Issue #68 • March/April, 2001 Here's a gadget I developed to run barb or barbless wire. You mount it on the back of...

Getting logs

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

This coop is for the birds

Farm and Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

By Allen Easterly Issue #165 • May/June, 2017 Maybe you’ve thought about keeping a few chickens for their eggs but didn’t want to be awakened at...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Growing and Using Peppers

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The greatest American who was never President

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

By Massad Ayoob Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 The year was 1873. Samuel Colt had invented the revolver—or at least introduced it to America—in 1836. The...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

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

Catch your own bait

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

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

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

Bottle-raise a calf

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Bovine basics for beginners

Home Dairying

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....
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Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...
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