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Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

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...

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Generators alone are not enough

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Build a community assistance recharging station

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

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...

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Science and truth. Are they related?

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Tackling the real problems that face us

ID cards are an idea whose time should never come

Homemade bread: a metaphor for life

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Homeschooling through high school

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one garden pest is dealt with, another takes its place. Last...

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

By Jackie Clay Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 When you mention "garden," everybody immediately thinks of sweet corn, green beans, and tomatoes, with a few peppers and cucumbers thrown in. But a whole lot of folks,...