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Animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Installing a steel roof

Build a compost tumbler

How to maintain a dirt road

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

By Daniel Furtney Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 Gleaning. You may remember the term from Sunday School or your Bible studies. In the book of Ruth,...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Flowers Brighten the Garden

Testing Soil

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Catfish Biscuits

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

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Nana V’s fire sauce

Lentil and meat stew

Indian Pudding

Making baby food at home

Self-reliance

Breastfeeding — A primer

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Caring for wounds in the field

Turn your passion into a business

Energy

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Portable solar power

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

The light at the end of the gun

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...