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Animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Good-bye old friend

Raising cattle on your own place

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

By Joe Mooney Issue #146 • March/April, 2014 Using a corrugated road culvert as a cistern is an economical way to add to your water storage....

Shake update

Build a poultry killing cone

Build an all-purpose ladder

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Sweet Potato Greens

Growing Microgreens

How to Grow Garlic

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Constitution of the united States of America

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

French Onion Soup

Vegetarian pies

Terrific tamale pie

Boiled crawfish

Self-reliance

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Breastfeeding — A primer

I heat my house by burning corn

Energy

Grid-down battery devices

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

How to select the right backup generator

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 One of our readers e-mailed John Silveira to tell him that taking a handgun afield after a long...

Picking a holster

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Air power superiority

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...