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Building

A house a tornado helped build

By Robert L. Williams Issue #16 • July/August, 1992 On May 5, 1989, tornadoes ripped through parts of three western North Carolina counties, including ours, and...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Woodbarrow

Build a Composter

Farm and Garden

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

By Brianna Stone <!-- >!>!>!> Make content-2-col-left = 70% if activating this column --> Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 This spring, my parents let me enlarge my...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

How to Grow Potatoes

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Americana and History

Food and recipes

Self-reliance

Energy

Guns and Hunting

Big boomer guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 For you long time readers, I know what you're thinkin'—"Hey, isn't this the guy who within the last...

Canning game meat

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Science

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Zombie Apocalypse

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The coming ice age

Politics and Commentary

Animals

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

By Annie Duffy Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 "If you're going to make something that you want to last, why not start with good quality material,"...

Switch your family to goat’s milk

By Tanya Kelley Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 If you milk goats, there's no doubt you've heard it—"Eww! Goat's milk! Gross!" To be perfectly honest, goat...

The homestead cat

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Self-Reliance

Farm and Garden

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 parked, walked quickly into the house, and said to my...
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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...
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