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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Three Raised Bed Designs

By Joe Mooney Issue #150 • November/December, 2014 When it comes to gardening, almost anything can be used to create a raised bed. Tires, blocks, rocks,...

Building and using wattle fences

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

Love Those Green Beans

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

The barnyard scramble

Grandpa’s justice

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Food and recipes

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

Greens and rhubarb are spring tonics

Bob’s basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen

Seven secrets of Dutch oven cooking

Self-reliance

Just for Kids: Some good clean fun!

Homeschooling through high school

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

Build a simple solar-powered outdoor light

Water pumping windmills

Water: a safe supply when you’re off the grid

Guns and Hunting

Sight and sound enhancement

By Massad Ayoob Issue #71 • September/October, 2001 Enhancing vision and hearing can make you a safer, more effective shooter, and sometimes can save human lives. Captain...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Picking a holster

The Appleseed Project

Catch your own bait

Science

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...