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Animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Slaughtering and Butchering

Where our farm animals come from

Raising your own beef for your family

Building

Build a lean-to greenhouse

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 Just thinking about a greenhouse can stimulate the senses. In our minds' eyes, we can see the filtered...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Build a barrel stove

Build a poultry killing cone

Installing a steel roof

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...

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

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

The barnyard scramble

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Pecan Crusted Trout

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

Keep the Ice On

Dill-onion bread

Self-reliance

Wash day

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

There’s no such thing as free land!

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Build your own solar-powered water pumping station

Making and using a solar cooker

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...