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Animals

Good-bye old friend

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Raising your own beef

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

By Patrice Lewis One of the advantages of living a homesteading lifestyle is participants can kick aside the ever-changing concepts of what constitutes “classy” home...

Parge the ugly out of your concrete wall

Build a chicken tractor

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Building and using wattle fences

Farm and Garden

Fruit Trees

By Alice B. Yeager Fall winds down with the ripening of a Japanese persimmon known as the Fuyugaki...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Companion Planting

Pruning Blueberries

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

Fried chicken for breakfast

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Food and recipes

Homemade Cottage cheese, rhubarb pie, lemon custard pudding cake, pasties, beef stew, biscuits, butter, grouse breast

Baked Bean Soup

The enchanting Chanterelle — Gourmet goodies free from the forest

Keep the Ice On

Self-reliance

Start a post-construction cleaning business

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

New yarn from old sweaters

Moving on: A small town can be a haven during a depression

Energy

Homemade electric power

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Solar Power 101: Inverters

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...