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Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

<!-- --> By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Shelves and benches

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Grow some winter squash this year

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Sight and sound enhancement

Choose your ammo… police style

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

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...

The many benefits of garlic

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

Politics and Commentary

Animals

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

...while leaving the carcass and feathers intact! By Dr. Roger W. Grim, D.C. Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 Figure 1. With a trash bag properly fitted around...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Good-bye old friend

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this, I was able to grow things like sweet corn in...
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Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in the early 1500s were taken back to Italy. Today, many...
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