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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Bovine basics for beginners

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build a Heated Germination Bed

A house a tornado helped build

How safe is your electric fence?

Farm and Garden

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

By Tom Kovach Issue #61 • January/February, 2000 Winter is a good time to plan your spring tree plantings, deciding what and where you want to...

Blueberry Cash Crop

Sweet Potato Greens

Growing and Using Peppers

A New Use for Old Tires: A Garden Using Tires

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....

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The summer of ’35

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Black beans and rice

Fresh cucumber delight

Emergency casserole

Crabapple jelly

Self-reliance

Sew a baby quilt in two days… for a lifetime of memories

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Help your home survive in the path of a wildfire

Take care of your knife

Energy

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Build a passive-solar food dehydrator

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Moderate power firearms

How big a gun do you need?

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...