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Animals

Brooder in a box

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Slaughtering and Butchering

Building

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

By Roy Martin Issue #104 • March/April, 2007 A hotbed is a miniature greenhouse that is heated to protect new seedlings from cold. The hotbed differs...

Renovating old walls

Installing a steel roof

Claw Hammers

Yurt Magic — Building an Enchanting Instant House

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

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

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Tomatoes, the Essential Garden Crop

Slug Zapper

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

Catfish Biscuits

President George Washington’s Farewell Address

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

Food and recipes

Hawaiian poha jam

Cheesy fish chowder

Breakfast Sausage Casserole

Old-fashioned baked beans

Self-reliance

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

With commonsense planning, you can survive hard times

Dehydrating eggs at home

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Energy

Energy class: Part 1

Generators alone are not enough

Handy Keychain Mini-Gadgets

Solar hot water systems

Guns and Hunting

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

By Mike Blank Issue #89 • September/October, 2004 What follows is my personal quest to acquire an M1 Garand through the Civilian Marks-manship Program (CMP). We've...

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The time for modern; the time for traditional

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

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...