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Animals

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Where our farm animals come from

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

Building

Rural Building

By Martin Harris Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 From the architect's chair Before beginning any building project, it is usually beneficial, from a time and cost perspective,...

A cabin for one

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Farm and Garden

Growing Potatoes in Straw

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...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Naughty Peppers

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Traditional trail foods — Transportable calories

Chicken San Francisco

Huckleberries purple gold

Scallop Crunch Appetizer

Self-reliance

Dollar Store to the Rescue

Small camp security

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Energy

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Tailoring guns to females

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

An economical battery of guns for the backwoods home

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...