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Animals

Raising rabbits for profit

Home Dairying

Finding the best dog for the country life

Raising Rabbits

Building

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

By John Silveira Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 My engineer father was not fond of wasting time or energy. He was always searching for a better,...

Dorothy Ainsworth update: Out of the ashes

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Solar Building Design

Farm and Garden

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gardening with a Chicken Tractor

Use Old Newspapers to Make Your Starter Pots

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

Americana and History

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Friends and Fellow Citizens: The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

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

Grandpa’s justice

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Food and recipes

Sourdough simplified

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Country-style Pork Stew

Can your own tomato products

Self-reliance

Foraging for wild berries

Drive your own freshwater well

Preparing for a Temporary Catastrophe

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Solar Building Design

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Waterpower for personal use

Generators alone are not enough

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...

Reload your own brass

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The light at the end of the gun

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

A brief history of health and medicine

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Science and truth. Are they related?

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

Politics and Commentary

Let’s stop apologizing for guns

Terrorism in America — The armed citizen’s view

Against a rapist

Why we have no “constitutional” rights

Animals

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...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Brooder in a box

Self-Reliance

Essential oils

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Defeating debt

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Farm and Garden

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

By Jereme Zimmerman Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 My journey to becoming a beekeeper has been a long one, and I’m still not quite there yet. For the past five years or so, I have read...

Jackie’s Garden Primer

By Jackie Clay Issue #117 • May/June, 2009 The birds are singing. The sunshine makes the day feel soft and warm. The soil is mellow and damp. It makes us feel like being outdoors and doing...