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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Is that a good pig?

Where our farm animals come from

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

By Charles Sanders Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Drying of food as a means of preservation has been around for a long time. Populations in suitably...

Installing a steel roof

Build a wood crib with free materials

A river rock shower

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Use Non-Hybrid Seeds and Save Big Bucks in This Year’s Garden

Love Those Green Beans

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

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

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

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

German green beans

Chicken Curry

Mexican Stuffed Shells

Baked chili relleno casserole

Self-reliance

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Paring down for off-grid living

10 country do’s and don’ts

Survival infection control

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar-powered water purifiers

Guns and Hunting

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

By Linda Gabris Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 Bear was a popular meat in our house when I was growing up in the rural woods. Black...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Building the coyote rifle

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...

The many benefits of garlic

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Testing Soil

Politics and Commentary

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Can an understanding of math and statistics save America’s freedoms?

The attack on Colin Powell prompts questions I’m not supposed to ask