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Switch your family to goat’s milk

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

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...

Small engine maintenance for women

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...

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

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

By John Silveira Issue #29 • September/October, 1994 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) It was...

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

The enchanting Chanterelle — Gourmet goodies free from the forest

A survival key ring — Your everyday tool for emergency preparedness

Walden Pond, the solar version: Part 1

Canning game meat

By Linda Gabris Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Attempting to can meat (or any other low acid food, for that matter) without the use of a...

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...

My View: Three Cheers for Free Enterprise

Lessons for My Children Chapter 1

Lessons for My Children, Chapter 2: Statistics, history, and the rise of the Underground Economy

Tackling the real problems that face us

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Redworm farming

By Charles Sanders Issue #112 • July/August, 2008 If you are looking for a way to earn extra income, a retirement job, or even a new...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Drive your own freshwater well

Make elderberry syrup for flu season

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....

Grow Open-Pollinated Tomatoes

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #166 • July/August, 2017 Nearly all of us homesteaders grow tomatoes in our gardens. Tomatoes are hugely valuable as a homestead crop. After all, they give us a wide variety of products. Many...