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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

A contrary guide to feeding animals

The homestead cat

Building

Composite lumber helps outdoor projects resist water, weather, and sun

By Steve Maxwell How many times have you built an outdoor project out of wood, only to be disappointed by the deterioration that hit after...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build your own log home in the woods

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some...

Mid-season planting

Naughty Peppers

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Gun control people don't seem to get just how deeply etched into the American psyche gun ownership goes...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Grandpa’s justice

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Humble stew

Eggnog

Six Chile Chicken

Honey whole wheat bread

Self-reliance

Survival firebuilding skills

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Energy

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Dim bulbs in California

Emergency solar power for $950

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

The Appleseed Project

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

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...