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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Building

Here’s how to make a musical bamboo flute

By Robert E. Kramer Issue #42 • November/December, 1996 Materials 1 propane or butane torch or campfire to heat up metal rod. 1 steel rod at...

Rural Building

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Build a stone wall

Farm and Garden

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're...

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

The Best City Garden

The Home Citrus Orchard

Grow Your Own Dishrags

Americana and History

The summer of ’35

By John Graesch Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Sixty five years ago I was living in that part of Seattle, Washington, known as South Park. Few...

The time-travel ad

The vanishing outhouse

Constitution of the united States of America

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Spicy Beef and Peppers

How to tell a bad egg

Southern mint julep

Easy raspberry jam

Self-reliance

Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

Foraging for wild berries

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Wash day

Energy

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Power Up

Energy class: Part 3

Solar power trailer Part 2

Guns and Hunting

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Sight and sound enhancement

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

How big a gun do you need?

Building the coyote rifle

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Theories of the universe

Gee-Whiz: Coffee

Gee-Whiz: Sleep

Politics and Commentary

Fixing a broken jury system

Golf’s critical life lessons are under threat

Personal guns getting to be in style

Real-life heroes

Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

By Dynah Geissal Issue #23 • September/October, 1993 Fall is butchering time, a period of joy in the harvest of the year's work and of sadness...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Redworm farming

Where our farm animals come from

Raising your own beef for your family

Self-Reliance

Digging a shallow well

Drawing the line on timber trespass

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Farm and Garden

Growing Strawberries

By Patrice Lewis Issue #162 • November/December, 2016 As you read this, the wind may well be howling and the snow piling deep, and you're likely curled up next to the woodstove with a mug of...

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved Water Quality, You...

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 It's been well over a decade now since I first heard my friend Pete voice his amazement at my practice of spreading animal manure as a fertilizer....