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Building

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 When I bought 10 dry barren "affordable" acres back in 1981 I got what I paid for: No...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Building and Using Wattle Fences

The Forever Floor

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

The $1 Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Women and guns

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: Trees

The world is ending! … Again?

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

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Build a poultry killing cone

Raising Rabbits

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Animal disease traceability

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

By Patrice Lewis Issue #141 • May/June, 2013 For much of human history, people have tried to prevent things from rotting. Literally every food preservation method we've come up with in the past few thousand years...
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Pruning Blueberries

By Kristina Seleshanko When we purchased our mountaintop homestead, I was excited to discover four blueberry bushes that were already established on our property. Not all of them were large, but they were an excellent...
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