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Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

How to Install a Steel Roof

By Morgan Barker  Issue #159 • May/June, 2016 Steel roofing isn't just for factories and barns...

How safe is your electric fence?

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...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

The ‘Curious Guy’ and the ‘Offended Woman’

Losing our rights as we watch television

The state of freedom in America

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki variety. Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 There's not one of us who...

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 your budget is lean and you want something green, there's...