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Animals

The homestead cat

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

This coop is for the birds

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for 99 cents, or you can go out to...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Here’s an Easier (and Cheaper) Way to Make Wooden Beams

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

Farm and Garden

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

By Darlene Polachic Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 Why spend money buying plant starter packs when you can make all you need from old newspapers? The...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Tracing a bean

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Chicken and dumpling stew

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

Thai fried rice

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Self-reliance

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Survival firebuilding skills

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Energy

Homemade electric power

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Dim bulbs in California

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Building the coyote rifle

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...