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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 Backwoods folk, or in my case, mountain folk, are typically very resourceful, utilizing whatever is on hand...

Our Unconventional House

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Woodbarrow

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Jackie’s Garden Primer

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Growing Strawberries

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

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

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

The greatest American who was never President

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Chicken Curry

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Hungarian venison stew

Making baby food at home

Self-reliance

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

The Trigger Line

Buying a used mobile home

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Energy class: Part 3

Water pumping windmills

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Reload your own brass

Tailoring guns to females

The Appleseed Project

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...