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Building

Build a pallet fence

By Clay Sawyer Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 If you have access to various sizes of free pallets, consider this idea for your next fence. Now...

Building Eric’s house

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a compost tumbler

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

Farm and Garden

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

By John Murray <!-- --> Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 For country landowners who desire a way to supplement their income, operating a small roadside farm stand is...

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

The Home Citrus Orchard

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

<!-- Subduction zone tsunami --> By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coast—actually, just that...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Gee-Whiz: Time

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

Politics and Commentary

Animals

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

The homestead cat

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson We have had at least one cat in our home ever since I was a young child. So it’s no wonder we...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

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

Raising rabbits for profit

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Victory Gardens

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #54 • November/December, 1998 There have been very few times in our nation's history when "We, the people" have banded together so fiercely as we did during World War II. We...
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The Home Citrus Orchard

By Anita Evangelista Issue #81 • May/June, 2003 It may seem like an impossible dream if you live outside of southern Florida, California, or Texas, but you can grow a home "backyard" orchard of oranges, lemons,...
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