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Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

By Rick Brentlinger Issue #53 • September/October, 1998 If I could show you how to manufacture a product anywhere in the country and if I offered...

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Build your own log home in the woods

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic...

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Cracklin’s — An irresistible snack that you can’t stop sneakin’

Blackened Chicken With Guacamole And Black Beans

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Just for Kids: Knock knock vinegar

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

How to select the right backup generator

Battery powered weekend retreat

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

The time for modern; the time for traditional

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

Science and truth. Are they related?

Every group needs a black sheep

Our energy crisis Part 3 — Alternative energy resources for the nation and for the self-reliant

Animal disease traceability

By Patrice Lewis Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 In 2009, small farmers and ranchers breathed a sigh of relief. So did people worried about another curtailment...

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

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

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Nursing: A perfect backwoods career

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have for hundreds of years grown potatoes above ground in straw...

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my garlic business and till up three 600-square-foot beds for planting...