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Animals

Home Dairying

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Beekeeping basics

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too...

By Michael Hackleman Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 Hydronic, or radiant floor heating is a method of heating a home, shop, or other building with the...

Build an all-purpose ladder

Three Raised Bed Designs

Woodbarrow

Stairs — The next level

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...

Propagating Grapes

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Testing Soil

The Potato Hole

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Remembering what grandma used

Fried chicken for breakfast

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

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

Food and recipes

Dehydrating food

Chow-chow

Two beans and wild asparagus salad

Creamy white bean soup with kale

Self-reliance

Grandma will love this personal ‘Helping Hands’ wall hanging

City boy, country boy

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Caring for wounds in the field

Energy

Solar-powered chicken coop

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

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...

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

Big boomer guns

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

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...