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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

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

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Building

A simple backwoods hay baler

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #82 • July/August, 2003 During the winter months, Steve and his wife Tandy feed between 120 and 150 bales of hay...

Never underestimate a woman

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a homestead Copy Cart

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Three Raised Bed Designs

How to Grow Great Carrots

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

Remembering what grandma used

The summer of ’35

Catfish Biscuits

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Homemade pizza

Pumpkin preserves

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

More tips and tricks for the kitchen

Self-reliance

Swedish log candle

Shopping to beat inflation

No dentist? Oh, no!

Preparedness for travelers

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Power Up

Generators alone are not enough

Guns and Hunting

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...