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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Where our farm animals come from

Build a ski sled

By Kai Moessle Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Since my property is almost half a mile away from the nearest road and I can't keep the...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Mid-season planting

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As the saying goes “Life happens…” Maybe events have kept you from getting your garden planted early in the spring. When we...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

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

The greatest American who was never President

Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian: Healthy meals that satisfy the omnivore

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

A small creek provides plenty of power for this off-grid home

Make your own biodiesel for 80¢ per gallon

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...

A brief history of health and medicine

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

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

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

The current ‘Gun control’ push — A cop’s eye view

We don’t need no steenking 2nd Amendment

Why oil and other fossil fuels are good

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

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

What to do when there’s no doctor

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods our hearts desire. But the prices in the nursery catalogs...