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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Raising your own beef

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Build a stone wall

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

Shelves and benches

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Growing Microgreens

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Grandpa’s justice

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Grandma’s persimmon pudding

Persimmon cookies

Cookies in a jar

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

Homestead security for women

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

Avoiding heat illness

Vinegar — A splash is all you need for healthful eating, natural healing, and sparkling home

Energy

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Build a community assistance recharging station

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...