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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Is that a good pig?

Building

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

By Don Lewis In 1874, a United States patent (#157,124) was issued to Joseph F. Glidden, a long-serving sheriff in DeKalb County, Illinois. His invention...

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Build a deluxe barrel stove

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Choosing a chain saw

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Build Your Own Hoop House

Love Those Green Beans

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Americana and History

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The vanishing outhouse

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

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Czarist Chicken Salad

Waldorf salad

Blueberry tofu frappe

Mint julep non-alcoholic

Self-reliance

10 country do’s and don’ts

Medicinal uses of garlic

Dealing with heat stress

Bath herbs

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Making and using a solar cooker

Is steam power in your future?

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Canning game meat

Catch your own bait

Tailoring guns to females

Science

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...