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Animals

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Animal disease traceability

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Building

Build a wood-fired stock tank heater

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #138 • November/December, 2012 Keeping fresh water in front of our livestock in the winter has always been somewhat of a problem....

Making and using a solar cooker

Build a poultry killing cone

Build a pallet fence

Build a chicken house in a day

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...

How to Grow Garlic

Growing Microgreens

Meat For the Homestead

Raised Bed Gardening — Neat and Productive

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Food and recipes

Sweet Ginger Eggs

The real “Q” — Barbecue the way it’s supposed to be

Canned bacon — Roll your own

Earth’s greatest cookies

Self-reliance

Start a post-construction cleaning business

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Homeschooling your dylsexic kid

Take care of your knife

Energy

Power Up

Solar hot water systems

For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind, and water

Add solar power to your truck camper

Guns and Hunting

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Sight and sound enhancement

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Building the coyote rifle

How to shoot a handgun accurately

Science

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

By John Silveira Issue #114 • November/December, 2008 If you haven't already heard, on September 10, 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located on the border...