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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Shelves and benches

By David Lee Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Money doesn't buy happiness but it sure does buy a lot of stuff. If it is nice stuff...

The Mini-Skyline — A homemade yarder to bring firewood up a...

Build a Groundhog Snare

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

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....

The vanishing outhouse

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The summer of ’35

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

Cookies in a jar

A healthy heart starts in the kitchen

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Gather rose hips for health

Self-reliance

Simplifying simplicity

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Cast iron

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

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Prepper power! Part 2

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

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...

Moderate power firearms

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Picking a holster

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...