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Animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Beekeeping basics

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Build your own portable forge

By Corcceigh Green Issue #51 • May/June, 1998 Looking for a handy summer project while building skills, supplies, and knowledge to put away for a rainy...

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Make adobe bricks

Three Raised Bed Designs

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Farm and Garden

Caring for your chickens in winter

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson As winter approaches, we all are thinking of ways to make our livestock and poultry as comfortable as possible when the cold...

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Companion Planting

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

Catfish Biscuits

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Hot Artichoke Dip

Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-season green tomatoes

Corned Beef Cakes

Self-reliance

Emergency planning beyond the bug-out bag

Defeating debt

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Grid-down battery devices

Guns and Hunting

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

By Massad Ayoob Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 There are so many makes and models of firearms in existence that no one has ever counted them...

Moderate power firearms

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

The Appleseed Project

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

A brief history of health and medicine

How big is the solar system?

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Politics and Commentary

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

Running your own business: a mother’s perspective

Which wars work best? The ones we fight or the ones we avoid?

Our energy crisis Part 2 — Nuclear energy is sensible and safe

Animals

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Redworm farming

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Slaughtering and Butchering

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Self-Reliance

Avoiding heat illness

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

10 country do’s and don’ts

Raising kids simply

Farm and Garden

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

By Charles Sanders Issue #123 • May/June, 2010 Tomatoes are one of the most favored of all garden crops. They originated in South America, but in the early 1500s were taken back to Italy. Today, many...

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Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and damp. It makes us feel like being outdoors and doing...

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