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Animals

Goat birthing and raising kids

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Good-bye old friend

Raising cattle on your own place

Building

Build your own repeating mouse trap

By Allen Easterly Issue #110 • March/April, 2008 Safety note: Because of drowning danger, 5-gallon buckets with any amount of water in them should never be...

A house a tornado helped build

Woodbarrow

Build a cistern out of corrugated road culvert

Small engine maintenance for women

Farm and Garden

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 After originating in the semi-arid regions of the middle east, espaliering (is-'pal-yer-ing) became a commonly employed fruit...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

Companion Planting

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Biological and chemical weapons through history

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Food and recipes

Fiery Frittata

Banana-Apricot Bars

Anne’s Sausage and Cabbage

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Self-reliance

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

A young couple moves to the country

Energy

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

What if the electricity GOES OFF?

Keep those gadgets working after the power goes out

Guns and Hunting

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

(and be assured everything still works when you dig it up) By Charles Wood Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 Back in the early 1990s the outlook for the...

Big boomer guns

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

The time for modern; the time for traditional

How big a gun do you need?

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...