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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

Build a compost tumbler

Farm and Garden

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...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Grow some winter squash this year

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Americana and History

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

By John Silveira Issue #30 • November/December, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) (When we...

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Fried chicken for breakfast

Food and recipes

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Kugel

Orange Chiffon Cake

Gather rose hips for health

Self-reliance

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Preparing for civil unrest

The accidental homesteader

Making apple pectin

Energy

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...