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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

By Suzy Lowry Geno Website Exclusive • April, 2007 I have what seems like mountains of great "fertilizer" from my barn full of English Angora rabbits....

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

A house a tornado helped build

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

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

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

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...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

The greatest American who was never President

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Lessons learned from an ice storm

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Making and using a solar cooker

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

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...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Body language and threat recognition

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Dr. Laura tells her listeners she’s decided to pack a gun

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

Start a Self-Sufficiency Garden Even in a Cramped Apartment

By Nancy Wolcott Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 You are sitting there in your recliner chair in your small city apartment desperately longing for the day when you can escape to the country and become a...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...