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Animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Is that a good pig?

Bovine basics for beginners

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

By Jay Stoler Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 Fiber cement board siding is one of a number of siding materials that is replacing wood these days...

Build a Composter

Building and stocking your pantry

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

By Rose Shelton Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 Last spring, I finally completed a long-planned homestead project of constructing two hügelkultur beds. What is hügelkultur? It’s...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Caring for your chickens in winter

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

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Buckboard bacon

Italian Pot Roast

Sweet pepper salad

Grilled Steak with Olive-Blue Cheese Sauce

Self-reliance

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Saving money on the homestead

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

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...

Thoughts on ammunition

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Of guns and snakes

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

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

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Politics and Commentary

The Newtown atrocity and “gun control”

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Self-reliance equals freedom

Terrorist attack! Was this predictable?

Animals

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Beekeeping basics

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Self-Reliance

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Building and stocking your pantry

Wash day

Farm and Garden

Currants and Gooseberries

By Sylvia Gist Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 Currants and gooseberries all belong to the genus Ribes (pronounced "rye-bees"). There are varieties of currants and gooseberries native to Europe and North America, along with some developed...

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Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...

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