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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Once a day milking

Redworm farming

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build a chicken tractor

Woodbarrow

New invention— The Fencerunner

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

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

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Build a Composter

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Constitution of the united States of America

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Fish — This gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook, and healthy to eat

Crabapple jelly

Self-reliance

Better wood heating

Dealing with heat stress

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

By Brad Rohdenburg Website Exclusive • September, 2014 A 1958 "Light Twelve" Browning Auto-5, with a 28" Improved Cylinder barrel and 'Speedfeed' loading. It weighs less...

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Choose your ammo… police style

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...