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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Redworm farming

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Build a poultry killing cone

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...

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Trusses — Low cost marvels to roof over most large spaces

Build a pallet fence

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

By Jackie Clay Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 Although I've been homesteading for more than forty years, there's always something new to learn. (I figure that...

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

The Home Citrus Orchard

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

By John Silveira Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 It was snowing and three of us were up at the office. Dave Duffy, the fellow who publishes...

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Food and recipes

Tahini — A health food par-excellence

Make sourdough with wild yeast

Poor man’s shrimp cocktail on perch

Tortellini Soup

Self-reliance

Tale of a country family

The raging torrent — Respect it even when you play

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Energy

Why you need to addsolar to your emergencypower backup plans

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Standby battery charging techniques can ensure engine startups

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

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

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Like many another rural person, I've often found a firearm to be my most important tool. No,...

Of guns and snakes

Big boomer guns

Affordable firearms

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

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...