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Building

Solar Building Design

By Steven Heckeroth Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 Solar building design has been used since ancient times. In the more recent past, it has been more...

Getting logs

Rural Building

How to maintain a dirt road

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Build Your Own Hoop House

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Sight and sound enhancement

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The many benefits of garlic

By Joe Knight Issue #113 • September/October, 2008 Garlic, used throughout the world for the taste it adds to foods, is also well known for its...

Science and truth. Are they related?

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

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Switch your family to goat’s milk

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...
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Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things after all these years. One of the most valuable things...
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