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Animals

Get to know your spiders

Good-bye old friend

Animal disease traceability

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Building

Build a Trail

By Claire Wolfe Standing near the top of the trail, looking down. The bright sunny spot in the middle distance will...

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Build an Off-Grid Root Cellar, Garage, and Bunkhouse

Build a log crib

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

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Hügelkultur for the Homestead

Americana and History

The time-travel ad

By John Silveira Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 It's become a minor Internet phenomenon. The ad reads: It's also been read by Jay Leno on his late...

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

Catfish Biscuits

Food and recipes

Raspberry chocolate torte

The chicken and the egg

Lenie in the kitchen: Lemon scones, pound cake, and pie

Dehydrating eggs at home

Self-reliance

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Medicinal uses of garlic

Homemade skin care products

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

Energy

Emergency solar power for $950

Our journey to modern off-grid living

Homemade electric power

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Guns and Hunting

Firearms — Tools of rural living

By Massad Ayoob Issue #91 • January/February, 2005 So, editor Dave Duffy and I got to talking about guns. We agreed that for some people they...

How big a gun do you need?

Building the coyote rifle

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years

Science

The gee-whiz! page — Cats: Why they rule our world

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 House cats A recent Gallup poll showed that cat ownership is pretty much evenly distributed between men and...