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Animals

Brooder in a box

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Raising your own beef for your family

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

Building

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

The Forever Floor

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

Our Unconventional House

Build a wood crib with free materials

Farm and Garden

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #147 • May/June, 2014 A new electric fence attached to older traditional wood fencing More and more people are turning to...

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Caring for your chickens in winter

Rotten Luck: The Skinny on Composting

Americana and History

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

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

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

Food and recipes

Glazed carrots with peas and onions

Easy, no-knead bread by Melissa Souza

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Cool dishes for formal summer dining

Self-reliance

Building and stocking your pantry

Dealing with heat stress

Defeating debt

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

Energy

Design calculations for no-head, low-head waterwheels

Waterpower for personal use

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Solar-powered chicken coop

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...

Building the coyote rifle

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Affordable firearms

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...