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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

Animal disease traceability

Build a poultry killing cone

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

Never underestimate a woman

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #32 Mar/Apr 1998 (In the May/June issue , we published an article by Dorothy Ainsworth titled "Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Farm and Garden

Sweet Potato Greens

By Tim Scullen Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 By now, you’ve no doubt figured out how good chard, spinach, and kale are for you. But did...

Love Those Green Beans

The $1 Garden

Naughty Peppers

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Your honey will love your sweet buns

Ginger beer

Pecan Crusted Trout

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

I heat my house by burning corn

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Hydronic woodstoves

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

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...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Air power superiority

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...