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Stairs — The next level

By Skip Thomsen Website Exclusive • August, 2004 Any good carpenter can build a staircase. What we're talking about here is taking that staircase to the...

Build a pizza oven

How to Install a Steel Roof

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Meat For the Homestead

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Science

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

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...

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

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Slaughtering and Butchering

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Redworm farming

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown spinach, there is a world of difference between its taste...
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Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...
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