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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Home Dairying

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Building and stocking your pantry

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Build Your Own Hoop House

How to build a good fence for your homestead

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...

Home-Grown Eggs

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Growing Microgreens

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 time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

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

Breakfast Cereal

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Bread — The staff of life

Self-reliance

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

This country job really rocks

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Energy

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

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Picking a holster

Building the coyote rifle

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The Appleseed Project

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...