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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

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

Once a day milking

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

How safe is your electric fence?

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Testing Soil

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Corn and nopalito salsa

7 Mistakes of food storage

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Self-reliance

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Buying the right emergency radio

Harvest your own firewood

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Portable solar power

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Of guns and snakes

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...