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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

By Doug Fluckiger Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 My secret passion is tall, dark, and handsome. I may find her lying luxuriantly among a dark grove...

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

By Mark and Lynn Klammer Issue #41 • September/October, 1996 As spring approaches each year, we can hardly wait for the feel of warm earth between...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

The greatest American who was never President

Constitution of the united States of America

Cooking from long-term food storage

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Just for Kids: Some farinaceous folly

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...

A government with not enough to do, but lots of hungry mouths to feed

The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America

Who’s supposed to protect our rights?

The Newtown atrocity and “gun control”

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Goat birthing and raising kids

Just for Kids: Life in the forest

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him, and he's a happy little man. He's not alone. Many...