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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Good-bye old friend

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Farm and Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

By Ben Richards Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 As most people are already aware, hydroponics is the practice of growing plants without soil. This is done...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Three Raised Bed Designs

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Constitution of the united States of America

Grandpa’s justice

Food and recipes

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

How to use those leftovers

Raspberry Pears with Chocolate Sauce

Raspberry chocolate torte

Self-reliance

Homemade pest traps

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Prepper power! Part 1

Portable solar power

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Tailoring guns to females

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Air power superiority

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...