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Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Build a Concrete Root Cellar

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #168 • November/December, 2017 I should have been a mole — it feels so safe and cool and quiet to be underground....

Make your own effective fishing tackle while you save money and...

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

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I...

Growing Productive Strawberries

Swiss Chard — The Leaf Vegetable That Keeps on Giving!

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Fried chicken for breakfast

By Danny Fulks Issue #88 • July/August, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, is one of those rare writers capable of painting a vivid picture of life back...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Betty’s Bread Pudding with Whiskey Sauce

Drawing the line on timber trespass

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

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Thoughts on ammunition

By Massad Ayoob Issue #108 • November/December, 2007 Ammunition is to firearms as gasoline is to automobiles. However, with guns and ammo, the fit isn't quite...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

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...

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Our energy crisis Part 1 — It’s our creation, but we can fix it

How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

Raising your own beef for your family

By Charles Sanders Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 For most homesteaders, the raising of livestock plays a crucial role in the home based economy. The types...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Khaki Campbell ducks — The other egg layer

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

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...

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

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 so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....