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Animals

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Where our farm animals come from

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

Building

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

By Doug Fluckiger Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 My secret passion is tall, dark, and handsome. I may find her lying luxuriantly among a dark grove...

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

Build a poultry killing cone

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Fruit Trees

Pruning Blueberries

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

the gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools

By O. E. MacDougal Issue #154 • July/August, 2015 There was a time when it was thought that a defining difference between humans and animals was:...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Food and recipes

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Canning Steelhead and Tuna

You can safely and easily can your own meat

Chocolate — Food for the Gods

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Homestead Helpers

Brood X

Cleaning a well

Energy

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

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Solar Building Design

Guns and Hunting

Women and guns

By Massad Ayoob Issue #121 • January/February, 2010 In a time when what used to be called "the women's liberation movement" has achieved many of its...