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Animals

Building

Build Your Own Car Wash

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 Completed car wash in operation If someone told me a year ago that I would have a...

Rural Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Getting logs

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in...

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

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

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Of guns and snakes

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...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

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

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Finding the best dog for the country life

Is that a good pig?

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...
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Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not all of them were large, but they were an excellent...
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