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Animals

Where our farm animals come from

Bottle-raise a calf

Keeping homestead animals healthy

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

Building

Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden’s...

By Armand O. Deblois Issue #47 • September/October, 1997 Cold stored fruits and vegetables are the next best thing to fresh-picked. Flavor and texture change little...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

Make adobe bricks

The Forever Floor

Claw Hammers

Farm and Garden

The Best City Garden

By Anita Evangelista Issue #103 • January/February, 2007 City gardens and country gardens are differentnot only in the amount of space...

Love Those Green Beans

Build a Keyhole Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

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

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

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

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

Food and recipes

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Peloponnesian Pot Roast

Nameless salad and dressing

Blunt family chili

Self-reliance

Essential oils

Learning to love the high desert

Food security 101: part 2

The coffee mug knife sharpener

Energy

Solar-powered refrigerators

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

Guns and Hunting

Affordable firearms

By Massad Ayoob Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 Knowing that frugality is one of the cornerstones of rural living, Editor Annie Tuttle suggested that I tackle...

Cold weather shooting considerations

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Use the right ammunition!

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...