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Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

Finding the best dog for the country life

Animal disease traceability

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build a pallet fence

Build a chicken tractor

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

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...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

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

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

Food and recipes

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

You can become a hardcore forager

Stewed tomatoes

The chicken and the egg

Self-reliance

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Preparing for civil unrest

I heat my house by burning corn

Energy

Portable solar power

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Affordable firearms

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Of guns and snakes

Moderate power firearms

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...