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Animals

Home Dairying

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Build your own log home in the woods

By Jackie Clay (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay) Issue #72 • November/December, 2001 This is the third part of a three-part series. The first two parts...

Claw Hammers

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

Rural Building

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Companion Planting

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #31 • January/February, 1995 "What were you listening to when I got to your house? Sounded nice. I don't think I've ever...

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

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Baking Bread

Potato Bread

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Self-reliance

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Life-saving snowshoes

How to maintain your chimney

Choosing a chain saw

Energy

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Solar power trailer Part 2

Millenium Vehicles

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Guns and Hunting

Just because

By Massad Ayoob Issue #144 • November/December, 2013 I generally recommend that people buy guns the way they'd buy power tools, or automobiles, or homes. Assess...