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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Bottle-raise a calf

Bovine basics for beginners

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...

Stairs — The next level

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build an all-purpose ladder

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

Green or Yellow: Grow Your Best Bush Beans Ever

Garden Seeds — A Great Winter Pastime

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

A Small Space Yields a Big Crop of Garlic

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

The greatest American who was never President

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Food and recipes

Old World apple chutney

Can your own tomato products

Apricot stuffed Lamb Chops

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Self-reliance

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

A guide to buying silver and gold

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Space heater safety tips

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Is steam power in your future?

Add solar power to your truck camper

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Cold weather shooting considerations

By Massad Ayoob Issue #126 • November/December, 2010 Winter will soon be upon us. Cold weather makes a lot of things more difficult. Running. Walking. Navigating...

Tailoring guns to females

Thoughts on ammunition

Big boomer guns

How big a gun do you need?

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...