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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Goat birthing and raising kids

Once a day milking

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...

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

A salvaged oak floor for $5

Build a pallet fence

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Farm and Garden

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time...

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Americana and History

The vanishing outhouse

By Tom Kovach Issue #79 • January/February, 2003 A person recently wrote to a large Midwest newspapers' advice column asking for information about outdoor privies. It...

Constitution of the united States of America

Fried chicken for breakfast

Remembering what grandma used

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Cultured milk — Food of centenarians

Orange honey pudding

Brining pickles by the quart or gallon

Penne with Provencal eggplant and peppers

Self-reliance

How to begin taking wildlife photographs

Kick the credit card habit and learn to stash cash

Swedish log candle

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Energy

Prepper power! Part 1

Solar suitcase

Generators alone are not enough

Phantom solar — The crucial invisible system needed before you install solar

Guns and Hunting

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How big a gun do you need?

Reload your own brass

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

Gee-Whiz: Alcohol

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Politics and Commentary

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

Is the Mainstream Media Finally Recognizing How the War on Drugs is Destroying Our Rights?

The media’s treatment of blacks makes their socialist bias obvious

Science and truth. Are they related?

Animals

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

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...

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Bovine basics for beginners

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

Once a day milking

Self-Reliance

Making maple syrup

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

No dentist? Oh, no!

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Farm and Garden

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic without having to hover over it, hoping that it produces....

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Growing and Using Bamboo on the Homestead

By Jereme Zimmerman  Issue #161 • September/October, 2016 Bamboo: The very word evokes an image of groves of tall, leafy plants swaying gently through the air...

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