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Animals

Raising your own beef

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Brooder in a box

Building

Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Gabion walls for form and function

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build a 6500-gallon concrete water tank for $1500

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Americana and History

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Fried Foods

Garlic – the glorious bulb

Chocolate Babka

Broccoli and Ziti

Self-reliance

Homestead Helpers

Cut your grocery bill in half

The fire wick fire starter

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Energy

How to select the right backup generator

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

Choose your ammo… police style

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Big boomer guns

Thoughts on ammunition

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...