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Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Where our farm animals come from

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Build a Trail

Build a Composter

Build a ski sled

Renovating old walls

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Americana and History

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...

The vanishing outhouse

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Filipino Chicken Stew

Make grape juice the easy way

Cast iron loaf pans from breakfast to dessert

Kalbi Chim

Self-reliance

New yarn from old sweaters

Drawing the line on timber trespass

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Defeating debt

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Solar-powered refrigerators

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

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

Air power superiority

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...