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A contrary guide to feeding animals

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Build a chicken house in a day

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Fermenting Chicken Feed

By Melissa Souza Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 On our homestead, we eat yogurt, kombucha (fermented tea), sauerkraut, and kimchi to add probiotics to our diet....

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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...

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Tips and handy hints for 4X4 living

Used bookstores can be sucessful in the hinterlands

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Use solar landscape lights for emergencies

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

By John Moody Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 In my youth, I remember my dad dragging my brother and me out of bed in the middle...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 As little as 30 years ago the talk wasn't about global warming, it was about an imminent ice...

A brief history of health and medicine

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Introducing the international tax cartel

How do you save freedom in America?

Which is better, a small town or city?

Bovine basics for beginners

By Patrice Lewis Issue #122 • March/April, 2010 Congratulations. You've escaped the city life and are now the proud owners of your little plot of rural...

Get to know your spiders

By Jerry Hourigan Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 Every landowner and homeowner creates the perfect environment for spiders. Not intentionally, of course, but spiders seem to...

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

Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Hypothermia — A real winter danger

Drive your own freshwater well

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Okra — Not Just for the South

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #58 • July/August, 1999 No one is quite sure about how okra seeds came to this country. Okra is of African origin and the seeds could have...

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large or small varieties. Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 When we dig in...