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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Raising your own beef for your family

Get to know your spiders

Bovine basics for beginners

Building

Adventures with a portable sawmill

By Pat Barden Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 I was raised in the suburbs and spent most of my adult life living in apartments and houses...

Build a lean-to greenhouse

Building a $3,000 Barn

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Gardening for Treasure

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

The Home Citrus Orchard

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

Americana and History

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

By Marlene Parkin Issue #22 • July/August, 1993 Many of the quilts of yesterday took a lifetime to make. Perhaps the mystical part of quiltsthe aspect...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Fly it proudly and properly

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Aunt Ona’s Mandarin orange cake

Nameless salad and dressing

Beef & Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Terrific tamale pie

Self-reliance

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Energy

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

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

Power Up

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Of guns and snakes

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Use the right ammunition!

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...