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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Get to know your spiders

Is that a good pig?

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

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....

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Fresh cucumber delight

Dark moons

Skillet Spanish rice

Self-reliance

Earning money from home

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Make a quilt out of Levis

Dealing with heat stress

Energy

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Job site solar power

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

Dim bulbs in California

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

Tailoring guns to females

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...