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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Raising rabbits for profit

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Building and stocking your pantry

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

Three Raised Bed Designs

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...

Build Your Own Hoop House

Currants and Gooseberries

The Best City Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Grandpa’s justice

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

Catfish Biscuits

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

7 Mistakes of food storage

Cheesy fish chowder

The incredible cattail — The super Wal-Mart of the swamp

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Self-reliance

How to maintain your chimney

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Raising kids simply

Just for Kids: Take a nite hike!

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Is steam power in your future?

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Energy class: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

By Massad Ayoob Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 In the long love affair between America and the rifle, there has never been an interlude quite as...

Just because

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

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

How big a gun do you need?

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...