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Animals

Building

A cabin for one

By Lee Greiman Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Between 1989 and 1990 I built a 20 by 20-foot log house on the Musselshell River in Montana....

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Building and stocking your pantry

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a poultry killing cone

Farm and Garden

The Homestead Greenhouse

By Charles Sanders Issue #67 • January/February, 2001 For those of us living close to the land, the production of a dependable and healthful food supply...

The Best City Garden

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

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...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Big boomer guns

Use the right ammunition!

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu — Novel Influenza A (H1N1) —...

Gee-Whiz: Insects

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Raising cattle on your own place

By Charles Sanders Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 Winter won't last forever. It won't be long before spring will arrive and pastures will start to green...

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Bottle-raise a calf

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Flowers Brighten the Garden

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Website Exclusive • March, 2006 Along with raising food plants, I like to tuck in a few flowers — both annuals and perennials. There's something about bright orange...
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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 weather hits. Visions of blowing and drifting snow swirl in...
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