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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising rabbits for profit

Where our farm animals come from

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Building and stocking your pantry

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

Blueberry Cash Crop

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

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Propagating Grapes

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

The vanishing outhouse

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

The greatest American who was never President

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

Food and recipes

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Basic chicken broth

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Baked Spaghetti

Self-reliance

Bath herbs

10 country do’s and don’ts

Bartering for bad times

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Energy

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Affordable firearms

Tailoring guns to females

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...