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Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

A cabin for one

Shake update

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

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Farm and Garden

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Growing and Using Peppers

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

Catfish Biscuits

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Affordable firearms

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...

Testing Soil

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

A brief history of health and medicine

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Beekeeping basics

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....
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Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...
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