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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Raising cattle on your own place

Is that a good pig?

Where our farm animals come from

Building

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

New invention— The Fencerunner

Make adobe bricks

Build a ski sled

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Gardening for Treasure

Testing Soil

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Make grape juice the easy way

Cheesy fish chowder

Elissaburgettes

Puerto Rican Rice With Pork

Self-reliance

Storing dry foods

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

A canoe livery — An honest, clean business

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Solar power trailer Part 2

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Homemade electric power

Guns and Hunting

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...