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Animals

Raising your own beef

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a compost tumbler

Building Eric’s house

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Victory Gardens

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

The vanishing outhouse

The summer of ’35

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Home canning safety tips

Triple chocolate cheesecake

Zucchini custard pie

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Chevre & Figs

Self-reliance

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Homemade skin care products

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Buy your country place from the government

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Portable solar power

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Choose your ammo… police style

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Use the right ammunition!

Women and guns

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Politics and Commentary

Next time you see me, don’t be afraid to say, ‘Hello.’

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Which is better, a small town or city?

Animals

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Good-bye old friend

Self-Reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

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

Earning money from home

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...

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Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...

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