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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising Rabbits

Redworm farming

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

A house a tornado helped build

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Farm and Garden

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

By Jackie Clay Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 Start your garden this year while the snow is still on the ground. I start all of my...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Pickled nopalitos

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Fried tuna patties

Self-reliance

How to make money from storage building auctions

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

An $89 backup generator

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

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...

The light at the end of the gun

Picking a holster

Tailoring guns to females

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...