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Animals

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Raising your own beef

Build a poultry killing cone

Building

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...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Rural Building

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...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The time-travel ad

Biological and chemical weapons through history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Food and recipes

Modify your oven to bake great bread

Blueberry wine jam

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Hoppin’ John with fresh asparagus beans

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Stay clear of young wild animals

Homemade skin care products

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Energy

Millenium Vehicles

Solar-powered chicken coop

Prepper power! Part 1

Solar power trailer Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Of guns and snakes

By Massad Ayoob Issue #151 • January/February, 2015 Mas safely kills a rattlesnake in a populated area. (Note angle of gun and trajectory.) Pistol is a...

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Use the right ammunition!

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

How big is the solar system?

By John Silveira Issue #60 • November/December, 1999 In artists' renderings of the solar system we often see the sun represented by a small sphere with...