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Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Where our farm animals come from

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

A salvaged oak floor for $5

By Robert L. Williams Issue #59 • September/October, 1999 Several months ago we decided we did not want to install a traditional bedroom floor of plywood...

Building David’s Cabin, Part One

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build your own portable forge

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Farm and Garden

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #74 • March/April, 2002 Are you tired of raising a big row crop gardenone that keeps you busy from dawn until...

How to Grow Great Carrots

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Strawberries

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

The best apple pie you’ll ever bake

Nameless salad and dressing

Herbed cheese

How to make kombucha

Self-reliance

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Pysanki — You can make those biddies pay!

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Advice from second-time homesteaders

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Solar Food Drying

Homemade electric power

Hydronic woodstoves

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Reload your own brass

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...