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Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising cattle on your own place

Beekeeping basics

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Build a Groundhog Snare

Gabion walls for form and function

Build a pallet fence

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Growing Strawberries

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

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

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Louisiana gumbo

Blunt family chili

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Italian Christmas bread

Self-reliance

The joys of making soap

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

Hydronic woodstoves

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Air power superiority

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...