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Animals

Redworm farming

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Raising your own beef

Get to know your spiders

Building

Build a pizza oven

By Mike Lorenzen Issue #143 • September/October, 2013 About a year ago, my wife and I traveled around Italy by car. We had lots of wood-fired...

Renovating old walls

Turning a $10,000 House into a Home — Part 1: Salvaging...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

Build your own log home in the woods

Farm and Garden

Gardening Tips and Tricks

By Charles Sanders Issue #99 • May/June, 2006 Gardeners are an ingenious lot. Trial and error, time, study, observation, and experience all help us to come...

Want More Fruit From Less Space? Espalier Your Trees!

Grow some winter squash this year

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

Caring for your chickens in winter

Americana and History

The barnyard scramble

By Michelle Hampton Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Each year during our local county fair, one of the best-attended events happens when farm animals, donated by...

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

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

Constitution of the united States of America

Food and recipes

Sweet Pickles

Texas Fireballs By Randy Young

Cooking with seeds — A surefire way to sow good health into your family’s diet

Adventures of a 9-pound cabbage

Self-reliance

Woolen winter mittens in minutes

Harvest your own firewood

Gee-Whiz: From Paper to Canning

The community treasure chest

Energy

Energy class: Part 3

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Radiant floor heating — Alternative to forced-air heating is solar-powered, too An interview with Stephen Heckeroth

Guns and Hunting

Savage Model 110 — A proven economical backwoods rifle

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • July, 2008 Fifty years ago, Savage Arms introduced a new bolt-action sporting rifle. In the gun world, this was news....

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Reload your own brass

Air power superiority

Science

The world is ending! … Again?

By John Silveira Issue #85 • January/February, 2004 People love to talk about scary stuff. Especially when it's end-of-the-world scary, such as the big asteroid recently...