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Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Get to know your spiders

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

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 a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Gabion walls for form and function

Building and stocking your pantry

Farm and Garden

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

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....

The vanishing outhouse

The greatest American who was never President

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Dehydrating eggs at home

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Nana V’s fire sauce

Pickled nopalitos

Self-reliance

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Pump water for free

Small Town America: Thermopolis, WY — Horses and hot springs

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Power-up bag

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

An $89 backup generator

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...