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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising rabbits for profit

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Home Dairying

Building

How safe is your electric fence?

By Eloise Twining I’ve used solar powered electric fencing on my California ranch for at least 35 years. Over that time electric fencing has proved...

This coop is for the birds

Build Your Own Car Wash

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

How to maintain a dirt road

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

Fermenting Chicken Feed

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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...

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

German green beans

Duck with Mushrooms

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Lenie in the kitchen: Hamburger and potato casserole

Self-reliance

Homeschooling through high school

Everybody talks about lightning and yes, there are things you can do about it

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

Energy

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Battery powered weekend retreat

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

By Massad Ayoob Issue #120 • November/December, 2009 A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and...

Building the coyote rifle

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

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

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...