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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...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

Build a Heated Germination Bed

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

Sweet Potato Greens

The Potato Hole

Okra — Not Just for the South

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

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Use the right ammunition!

Picking a holster

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Cold weather shooting considerations

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

<!-- Subduction zone tsunami --> By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coast—actually, just that...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The many benefits of garlic

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Bottle-raise a calf

Home Dairying

Bovine basics for beginners

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Growing Microgreens

By Lisa Nourse Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The small town where I live has two small grocery stores and getting a good variety of organic produce during the winter months is difficult. I find myself...
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Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they produced, so when I eventually acquired property in Montana, I...
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