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Animals

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

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

By Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker. Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure...

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

Make adobe bricks

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

Home-Grown Eggs

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 4 — Cunning, vindictive, and...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Food and recipes

Sweet pepper salad

Indian Fry Bread

Lentil and meat stew

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Self-reliance

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Job site solar power

Power-up bag

Dim bulbs in California

Power Up

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Reload your own brass

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

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...