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Animals

The homestead cat

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Get to know your spiders

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Building Eric’s house

Never underestimate a woman

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

By Raymond Nones Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 For years every spring I planted spinach in my garden. For those who have never tasted home grown...

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Growing and Using Peppers

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

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...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

The greatest American who was never President

Food and recipes

Baby bok choy with tofu

Danish Meat Balls

Fermented dill pickles

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Self-reliance

Your kitchen pharmacy — How common culinary herbs and spices can help you feel better

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

How to maintain your chimney

Energy

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Guns and Hunting

Use the right ammunition!

By Massad Ayoob Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 The purpose of the gun is to fire ammunition. It follows that the ammunition should be the correct...

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

The world is ending! … Again?

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

When “good” laws are bad

Why I’m nice to telemarketers

Every group needs a black sheep

Biological & chemical terrorism

Animals

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

By Kathleen Sanderson Issue #95 • September/October, 2005 I have had dairy goats for most of the last 20 years or so and have raised almost...

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

By Margaret Wright Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 When we think of a backwoods dog we generally think of a Pyrenees, German Shepherd, or other breed...

Beekeeping basics

Raising cattle on your own place

Slaughtering and Butchering

The homestead cat

Self-Reliance

Digging a shallow well

Learning to love the high desert

Just for Kids: Killing some time (Create an afternoon time warp)

Better wood heating

Farm and Garden

Grow Open Pollinated Seeds for Self-Reliant Gardening

By Jackie Clay Issue #56 In the past I've grown hybrid vegetables, mostly the varieties that have been developed to produce early yields. Because of this, I was able to grow things like sweet corn in...

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Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him, and he's a happy little man. He's not alone. Many...

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