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How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

How safe is your electric fence?

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

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...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Flea market stories and strategies

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Battery powered weekend retreat

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

Paying for social security with worthless $

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

Losing our rights as we watch television

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Start a post-construction cleaning business

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers both annuals and perennials. There's something about bright orange...