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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

Our Unconventional House

A river rock shower

Farm and Garden

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day...

Growing Strawberries

The Potato Hole

Sweet Potato Greens

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Grandpa’s justice

Constitution of the united States of America

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Making sausage

Dill-onion bread

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

Twice Cooked Pork

Self-reliance

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

Simplifying simplicity

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

An $89 backup generator

Dim bulbs in California

Power your bug-out bag

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Picking a holster

Reload your own brass

Big boomer guns

Firearms and cold weather considerations

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...