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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising your own beef for your family

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Once a day milking

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Q. We have just purchased 15 acres, and our question is how to install our septic system, how...

A river rock shower

How safe is your electric fence?

New invention— The Fencerunner

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Victory Gardens

Okra — Not Just for the South

Grow some winter squash this year

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

The greatest American who was never President

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Lemon-Tarragon Veal

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Self-reliance

Buy your country place from the government

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Raising kids simply

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

How to select the right backup generator

Keep the Ice On

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Air power superiority

Of guns and snakes

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...