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Animals

The homestead cat

Redworm farming

Animal disease traceability

Goat birthing and raising kids

Building

Build a portable woodstove for $30

By David Scott Matthews Issue #78 • November/December, 2002 I had a problem. Other men love football, baseball, basketball, or golf. I love to hunt. And...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Getting logs

Building your chicken coop

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country....

Exotic Plants for the Homestead

Naughty Peppers

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Tea for the garden

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Canning chickens for the pantry

Potato Bread

Baking Bread

Self-reliance

Fire resistant property

Flea market stories and strategies

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Getting out of Dodge — 10 Things I am doing to prepare for the move to the country

Energy

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Build Your Own Car Wash

Solar Power 101 — Solar arrays

Portable solar power

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...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

How big a gun do you need?

Thoughts on ammunition

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...