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Animals

Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

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

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet....

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Mid-season planting

Home-Grown Eggs

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

A used shotgun bargain: The Browning Auto-5

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Moderate power firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

By John Silveira Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 What would happen if all the honeybees disappeared? According to some pundits we'd see a collapse in much...

Goat birthing and raising kids

By Jackie Clay Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 Dairy goats form one of the cornerstones of our homestead. Not only do they provide milk, cheese, ice...

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

Redworm farming

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...
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For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...
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