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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Renovating old walls

By David Lee Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Some years ago my wife and I were out searching for a new building lot when we fell...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Gardening the Year ‘Round

By Alice B. Yeager Website Exclusive • September, 2006 Normally, we gardeners tend to make plans to begin planting our gardens during early spring. We select...

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

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...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

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

You can become a hardcore forager

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Winter in the High Desert — Understanding the music

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...

My View: Gaining an appreciation for risk

Personal guns getting to be in style

Sgt. Jim Duffy — An ordinary hero

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

By Richard Blunt Issue #49 • January/February, 1998 The domestic chicken, or Gallus domesticus as the Romans called it, has lived with humans for centuries. It...

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Caring for wounds in the field

Stay clear of young wild animals

Growing the Eternal Tomato

By Leonard Trebor Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 It's an old story to longtime gardeners (and a new story to novices): each spring you buy some superb tomato plants, set them out on May 1 (or...

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...