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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising rabbits for profit

Building

Build a Composter

By Charles Sanders Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 As with most of the other facets of homesteading, composting can be as simple or as elaborate as...

Build a wood crib with free materials

Build your own repeating mouse trap

Build your own portable forge

Build Your Own Hoop House

Farm and Garden

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re...

How to Grow Garlic

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Americana and History

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

The summer of ’35

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Liver Fricassee

Ashe Torsh

Nana V’s holiday corn bread

Colorado Cowboy Cookies

Self-reliance

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

How to maintain your chimney

In the classroom and at home, this system will help you grow self-reliant kids

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Energy

Water pumping windmills

How to select the right backup generator

Solar power trailer Part 1

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The light at the end of the gun

The Appleseed Project

Choose your ammo… police style

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...