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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Is that a good pig?

Building

Determined woman builds distinctive vertical log studio

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #27 • May/June, 1994 When I graduated from high school in 1960, my father wrote in my autograph book, "When you get...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

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

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our...

Propagating Plants

Tea for the garden

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

The Home Citrus Orchard

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Blueberry Vareniki

Making apple pectin

Creamed Carrot Soup

Hummingbird Cake

Self-reliance

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Preparedness for travelers

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

Water pumping windmills

An $89 backup generator

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Guns and Hunting

Catch your own bait

By Gary Gresh Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 Expensive lures and pricey tackle shop baits can sometimes make fishing an expensive proposition, raising the cost of...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

By O.E. MacDougal Backwoods Home Did early man first cultivate grains just to get drunk? The brewing of beer is older than civilization and goes back at...