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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Goat birthing and raising kids

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...

Building and using wattle fences

A simple backwoods hay baler

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Farm and Garden

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop....

The Homestead Greenhouse

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Build a Keyhole Garden

Gardening for Treasure

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Remembering what grandma used

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

Grandpa’s justice

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Filipino Chicken Stew

Lamb and black bean tamale pie

Chocolate Babka

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Self-reliance

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Breastfeeding — Babies love it, and for good reason

10 country do’s and don’ts

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Energy

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Energy class: Part 3

Making and using a solar cooker

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...