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Animals

Is that a good pig?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Bottle-raise a calf

Building

Building your chicken coop

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Here's a coop we built from pallets and scrap lumber. The goats lived in one end and the...

Build a stone wall

Five building tricks for super strong framing

Renovating old walls

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

Propagating Grapes

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Leafy Green Vegetables — The Underrated Heroes of the Garden

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

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

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Constitution of the united States of America

The vanishing outhouse

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

Food and recipes

Italian Christmas bread

Chicken Curry

Skillet Spanish rice

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

SARS — Is this a glimpse of the future?

Teaching the joy of reading

Drive your own freshwater well

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

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

Guns and Hunting

How to shoot a handgun accurately

By Massad Ayoob Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 "I want you to do an article on how to shoot a handgun accurately," Dave Duffy told me....

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Sight and sound enhancement

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Just because

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...