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

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

By Jane Duquette Issue #148 • July/August, 2014 For delicious squaw candy, start with the freshest fish. One fresh July evening at our summer cabin in Soldotna,...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

An easier way to cut firewood By Larry LaVan

There’s no such thing as free land!

Build a community assistance recharging station

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Add solar power to your truck camper

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

The Coming American Dictatorship Part XI — The Tenth Amendement Movement

Gulf War II opened the eyes of Americans to the UN and the media

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Goat birthing and raising kids

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

The art of living in small spaces

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to play video games at the mall. And one of the...