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Animals

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

How to build a good fence for your homestead

By Charles Sanders Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 One of the basic fixtures on a homestead...

Rural Building

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

A house a tornado helped build

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

By Gail Butler Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 When friends stop by for a visit I like to offer them a hospitable and healthful libation of...

Meat For the Homestead

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Fermenting Chicken Feed

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Constitution of the united States of America

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

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Tricia’s chicken chili

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead

Making Yogurt

Self-reliance

Turn your passion into a business

Cut your grocery bill in half

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s production all winter

Energy

Solar hot water systems

Solar suitcase

Portable solar power

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

How big a gun do you need?

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

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: Time

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

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

Politics and Commentary

In time of war — The Israeli answer to terrorism

Helping crackpots kill kids

Putting it all on the Amtrak line for Self-Reliance magazine

Consider the trades when it comes to your future ability to make money

Animals

Once a day milking

By Patrice Lewis Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 It sounds bucolic, doesn't it? The simple joys of milking your own cow. Fresh milk, fresh cream, homemade...

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Bovine basics for beginners

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising your own beef for your family

Get to know your spiders

Self-Reliance

Teaching the joy of reading

Survival infection control

This country job really rocks

No dentist? Oh, no!

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space each can fill, but in the types and quantities of...

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Build a Keyhole Garden

By Katelynn Bond Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 One of the hazards of living on the side of a mountain in northern New Mexico is that I live on a rock. And I don't mean the...

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