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Animals

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Building

Build Your Own Hoop House

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #171 • May/June, 2018 I’ve had my own garden for more than half a century, and I have learned a few things...

Build Your Own Car Wash

Build your own log home in the woods

Build a barrel stove

How to Install a Steel Roof

Farm and Garden

Garden Spaces for Small Places

By Dorothy Ainsworth Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden. Minnie Aumonier Yes, and if...

The ‘Chocolate Tree’ Isn’t Just for Kids

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

How to Grow Great Carrots

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Remembering what grandma used

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Lamb and Apricot Pilaff

Beans for Sarah

Red flannel hash

Cookies in a jar

Self-reliance

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of Nature’s Best Gifts

A determined Rose Bley escaped the city

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

Preparing for winter

Energy

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Power-up bag

Solar charge controllers — myths, hype, and facts

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

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...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Affordable firearms

Picking a holster

Just because

Science

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

By John Silveira Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 This is an article with both anecdotal evidence and science. It is about me, anxiety and depression, a...