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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising Rabbits

Building

The house that Dorothy built

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 This isn't the first time we've had an article by and about...

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Rural Building

Farm and Garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

By Charles Sanders Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 Many of us who garden have learned the benefits of starting our own vegetable and flower plants. There...

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

The Home Citrus Orchard

Victory Gardens

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Hawaiian poha jam

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Bread — The staff of life

Mairead’s Fabulous Flan

Self-reliance

For health & comfort, try wild herbal teas

Start your food storage on $10 a week

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

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

Energy

Solar power trailer Part 1

Install a mobile, solar powered toilet

Energy class: Part 1

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Guns and Hunting

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #45 • May/June, 1997 I take the Springfield Armory rifle out of the box, and savor it. I seldom do that with...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Frontier style handguns for the modern backwoods home

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Affordable firearms

Science

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...