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Animals

Is that a good pig?

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Vise Dremel Moto Tool mount

Farm and Garden

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

By R.E. Rawlinson Issue #173 • September/October, 2018 When compared to our ancestors, we are very lucky to have readily-available tools. Stores are full of anything...

Growing Strawberries

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Americana and History

Constitution of the united States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common...

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Grandpa’s justice

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

Food and recipes

Asparagus au gratin

Canning chickens for the pantry

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Goat milk recipes

Self-reliance

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Cash in on your household junk

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Energy

Job site solar power

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

How big a gun do you need?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 We Americans like to do things in a big way. Big houses. Big cars. Big boats. And, yes,...

Choose your ammo… police style

Women and guns

Canning game meat

Firearms — Tools of rural living

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...