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Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build a pallet fence

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Farm and Garden

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

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

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

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...

Gee-Whiz: Insects

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

The coming ice age

Science and truth. Are they related?

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Slaughtering and Butchering

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

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...
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Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

By Joe Mooney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 I've always found the use of seasonal rains by native peoples very fascinating. From the diversion of floodwaters in earthen berms to irrigation via "aquaduct," it seemed incredible...
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