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Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

How safe is your electric fence?

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

By Donna Insco  Issue #158 March/April, 2016 According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website, "CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build a community assistance recharging station

Making and using a solar cooker

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

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

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

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...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The Coming American Dictatorship revisited

My view: Socialism’s promises always end in disaster

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?

The tenuous hold of honesty in modern America

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...

The Potato Hole

By Sylvia Gist Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Carrots go in sand in the green pail and potatoes can be sorted by type into plastic mesh bags. We had talked of putting in a regular root cellar,...