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Animals

Building

Build a Trail

<!-- Build a trail By Claire Wolfe --> By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

A house a tornado helped build

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. — Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

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

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

The summer of ’35

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Affordable firearms

Reload your own brass

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Picking a holster

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

By Jackie Clay Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 When I was a child, I used to read and re-read the chick section in our Sears and...

Raising Rabbits

Good-bye old friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Get to know your spiders

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....
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Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

By John Fuchs Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 Leaves are an excellent way to add organic matter to the garden. However, using raw—or unprocessed—leaves has some drawbacks. Raw leaves are more acidic than composted leaves, and...
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