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Animals

Redworm farming

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

By Robert Van Putten Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted a rustic log cabin deep in the...

Shelves and benches

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Naughty Peppers

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....

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The summer of ’35

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

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Food and recipes

Ham and sausage jambalaya

Vidalia Onion Pie

Huckleberries purple gold

Ribeye Steak with Chianti Sauce

Self-reliance

The wonderful world of axes

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Energy

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar-powered refrigerators

Solar hot water systems

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

The light at the end of the gun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 Dave writes, "A few weeks ago I had to shoot a skunk in the chicken house, but the...

Air power superiority

The Appleseed Project

Picking a holster

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

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

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Gee-Whiz: Dinosaurs

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Politics and Commentary

If you don’t like it here, why don’t you move to another country?

Science and truth. Are they related?

Chuck meets Bubba

Do we need a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights?