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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build a compost tumbler

By Joe Mooney Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 A few years back, I caught myself becoming a bit frustrated with my compost pile. It seemed that...

Build a log crib

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a stone wall

How to maintain a dirt road

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,...

Build a Composter

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Tea for the garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

The time-travel ad

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Boiled crawfish

Salmon candy and pickles — Two unique ways to enjoy your next catch

Self-reliance

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Start your food storage on $10 a week

The many benefits of garlic

Cleaning a well

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Power Up

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

The Appleseed Project

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Affordable firearms

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...