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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Building

Build a deluxe barrel stove

By David Lee Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Winter is coming again, pretty much on schedule in spite of global warming, and it will be cold,...

A house a tornado helped build

Build an all-purpose ladder

New invention— The Fencerunner

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

The $1 Garden

Pruning Blueberries

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Sweet Potato Greens

Americana and History

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...

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Hungarian venison stew

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Fermented dill pickles

Self-reliance

A young couple moves to the country

Bugging out in place

Cash in on your household junk

Making maple syrup

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar-powered refrigerators

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Reload your own brass

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Of guns and snakes

Canning game meat

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...