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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Good-bye old friend

Goat birthing and raising kids

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Building a Ferro-Cement Shed

By Robert Van Putten Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 For a year and a half, we lived in an 18-foot travel trailer while building a straw...

Building Eric’s house

Building your chicken coop

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

Shelves and benches

Farm and Garden

How to Grow Potatoes

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 Potato plants need plenty of sunshine, a well drained soil, and no weed or grass interference. Ideal...

Gardening for Treasure

Growing Strawberries

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

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...

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Constitution of the united States of America

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Cornmeal sour cream biscuits

Bacon-Avocado Potato Salad

Chilies rellenos

Self-reliance

Finding wealth you can wear at yard sales

Cast iron

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Energy

Homemade electric power

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

Air power superiority

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...