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Animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Finding the best dog for the country life

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build a Vertical Storage Rack for Cans

By Monika Williams Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 I am always trying to come up with different ways to utilize the small space I have to...

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Build a cold smoker so you can make delicious squaw candy

A house a tornado helped build

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Farm and Garden

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

By Lisa LaFreniere Issue #62 • March/April, 2000 Bush Beans, or snap beans as they're sometimes referred to, are a growing favorite among many gardeners, and...

Caring for your chickens in winter

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Put Your Garden to Bed for the Winter

Currants and Gooseberries

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

The greatest American who was never President

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Avoiding common canning mistakes

Blueberry Vareniki

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

These salads are hearty dishes

Self-reliance

10 country do’s and don’ts

Survival/utility vest

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Getting logs

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Solar Food Drying

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...

The light at the end of the gun

Of guns and snakes

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...