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Animals

Redworm farming

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Beekeeping basics

Good-bye old friend

Building

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #38 • March/April, 1996 I got the dreadful call from my son Eric at 2 p.m. on June 29th, 1995, an hour...

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Building and Using Wattle Fences

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Growing Productive Strawberries

The $1 Garden

Saving Seeds

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The time-travel ad

Food and recipes

Corn cob jelly

Cauliflower-Ham Chowder

Easy raspberry jam

Wonderful wilderness wines

Self-reliance

Preparing for winter

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

Frostbite — Don’t flirt with this sneaky danger

10 ways to make money on your land

Energy

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The light at the end of the gun

Firearms — Tools of rural living

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...