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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Redworm farming

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Is that a good pig?

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build Your Own Hoop House

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Caring for your chickens in winter

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build a Composter

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Grandpa’s justice

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The summer of ’35

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

How to can chopped garlic

Southern cooking that doesn’t just whistle Dixie

Recipes from my mother’s kitchen

Baked Beans, Two

Self-reliance

Start a fire in any weather

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

13 steps to a life of freedom

Homemade pest traps

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar-powered chicken coop

Prepper power! Part 1

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

The light at the end of the gun

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Air power superiority

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...