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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Get to know your spiders

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build Your Own Car Wash

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Farm and Garden

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

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The vanishing outhouse

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Fried tuna patties

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Hearty breakfast fillets

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Foraging for wild berries

No dentist? Oh, no!

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Prepper power! Part 2

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

Thoughts on ammunition

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Picking a holster

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...