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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising your own beef for your family

Gabion walls for form and function

By Joe Mooney Issue #153 • May/June, 2015 I think there has to be something ingrained in the human brain that loves things built of stone....

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful...

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Generators alone are not enough

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Build your own battery charging station

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...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The unheralded roots of America’s freedoms

Something unsaid about Timothy McVeigh’s execution

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

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...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Switch your family to goat’s milk

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

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

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...