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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Home Dairying

Build a poultry killing cone

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Making and using a solar cooker

By Joe Radabaugh Issue #30 • November/December, 2004 Solar cooking is a delightful alternative to conventional cooking methods. The solar cookers available today really work and...

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Building your chicken coop

Make adobe bricks

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Three Raised Bed Designs

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Slug Zapper

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Italian Christmas bread

Basic brown stock

Gourmet nutrition with beans and rice

Kids in the Kitchen

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Start a fire in any weather

Just for Kids: Visit the great prairies

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Job site solar power

Power Up

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Use the right ammunition!

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Sight and sound enhancement

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...