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Animals

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Raising rabbits for profit

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Building

Choosing a chain saw

By Steven Gregersen Issue #119 •September/October, 2009 Winter will be here soon and along with winter comes cold weather and high heating bills. Obviously there's nothing...

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Building your chicken coop

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Grandpa’s justice

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Boiled crawfish

Baked Macaroni and Cheese to Kill For

Banana-Apricot Bars

Twice Cooked Pork

Self-reliance

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Homemade pest traps

Drive your own freshwater well

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...

Choose your ammo… police style

Use the right ammunition!

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

By John Silveira Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 I like "doomsday" scenarios even ridiculous ones, such as the supposed Mayan calendar prophecy for 2012 or...