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Animals

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

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Redworm farming

Animal disease traceability

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build Your Own Hoop House

Build a graceful footbridge

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

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

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Pickled fish and rollmops

Stuffed sweet peppers

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Baked Spaghetti

Self-reliance

Make your own firestarters

10 country do’s and don’ts

Bath herbs

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Energy

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Use the right ammunition!

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Moderate power firearms

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...