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Animals

Home Dairying

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Once a day milking

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Building

Build a homestead Copy Cart

By Charles Sanders Issue #45 • July/August, 1997 I don't know too many homesteaders, gardeners, or small farmers who haven't at one time or another wished...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a barrel stove

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

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

Farm and Garden

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Caring for your chickens in winter

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

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

By John Silveira Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do you...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Catfish Biscuits

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Black beans and rice

Making good jerky

Pickled nopalitos

Humble stew

Self-reliance

I heat my house by burning corn

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

The many benefits of garlic

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part II

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Water pumping windmills

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...