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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Raising rabbits for profit

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Build a pallet fence

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

The Homestead Greenhouse

Meat For the Homestead

Fruit Trees

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Earth’s greatest cookies

Spiced red beans

Potato soup

Apple and Potato Soup

Self-reliance

Learning to love the high desert

Woodstove cooking

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

7 Mistakes of food storage

Energy

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Generators alone are not enough

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Use the right ammunition!

Canning game meat

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...