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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Animal disease traceability

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Build a poultry killing cone

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Companion Planting

By Beverly Mettot Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 Companion planting is nothing new, and yet in recent years it has made an extraordinary comeback, not only...

Fruit Trees

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Love Those Green Beans

Americana and History

Biological and chemical weapons through history

By John Silveira Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 The weather here on the coast of Oregon is nice almost all year-round, and there almost always seems...

Fried chicken for breakfast

The summer of ’35

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Layered Casserole & Pea Salad

Sweet potato pudding

Stuffed sweet peppers

Baked Spaghetti

Self-reliance

Homestead security for women

Homestead helpers

Sewing and using cloth diapers is easier than you think

Food security 101

Energy

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Is steam power in your future?

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Tailoring guns to females

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Catch your own bait

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...