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Animals

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

The homestead cat

Get to know your spiders

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

A simple backwoods hay baler

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #82 • July/August, 2003 During the winter months, Steve and his wife Tandy feed between 120 and 150 bales of hay...

Small engine maintenance for women

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Renovating old walls

Make adobe bricks

Farm and Garden

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

The $1 Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

The barnyard scramble

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

Waldorf salad

Artichoke Omelet Appetizer

Blueberry Vareniki

Making dandelions palatable

Self-reliance

Bartering for bad times

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Defeating debt

Make coiled rugs from scrap material

Energy

Keep the Ice On

Solar power for farm and ranch

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

Solar suitcase

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Just because

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Sight and sound enhancement

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

The coming ice age

How big is the solar system?

Theories of the universe

The world is ending! … Again?

Politics and Commentary

Talking to your kids about death

Body language and threat recognition

Confronting the enemy

A Republic vs. A Democracy

Animals

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Raising your own beef for your family

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Self-Reliance

How to maintain your chimney

Homemade skin care products

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

The saga of Benjamin, the backwoods, homeschool boy who wanted to get a job

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 early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until dusk? Do you really need to raise enough vegetables to...