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Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Build a graceful footbridge

By Harrison Stone Issue #77 • September/October, 2002 Tap your heels together three times and repeat after me, "There is no place like homeThere is no...

For summertime baking needs, build yourself an outdoor horno

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader, part 2

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

How to Grow Garlic

By Melissa Souza Issue #167 • September/October, 2017 Garlic is easy and rewarding to grow. I use it throughout the year, as it is extremely easy...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

CHILI MANIA — This all-American food came out of Texas to conquer the whole culinary world

I heat my house by burning corn

How to make money from storage building auctions

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

Installing your own small, remote off-grid solar system

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

Loading the gun for a dictatorship

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

By Amanda J. Kemp Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Spring brings the pitter-patter of little feet in the mud, games of tag, and raucous quacks. While...

Finding the best dog for the country life

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Paring down for off-grid living

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better, more efficient way to perform chores, especially chores that reoccurred...

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...