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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Shearing, carding, spinning, weaving and creating with Margaret Boos

Brooder in a box

Building

Build a stone wall

By Charles Sanders Issue #70 • July/August, 2001 The natural beauty of a stone wall has been romanticized in poem and picture for hundreds of years....

Save Time and Energy with the Fenced Chicken Coop/Garden

Simplify life in your backwoods home by using these easy mountain...

A simple backwoods hay baler

Livestock fencing for the small homesteader

Farm and Garden

Gardening for Treasure

By Alice B. Yeager Tomatoes are a boon to mankind in health benefits. It doesn't matter whether they are the large...

Build a Keyhole Garden

Growing and Using Peppers

Growing Productive Strawberries

Grow some winter squash this year

Americana and History

Remembering what grandma used

By Marjorie Burris Issue #57 • May/June, 1999 My grandmother, Mary Etta Dillman Graham, was one of those frontier women who took life as it came;...

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

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

Constitution of the united States of America

James Polk — A model for modern presidents

Food and recipes

Honey whole wheat bread

Chicken Enchiladas

Homemade healthy soba noodles

Corned Beef Cakes

Self-reliance

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Roger Clark: Cane syrup maker

Medicinal uses of garlic

A worthwhile journey

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Solar Food Drying

Guns and Hunting

Reload your own brass

By Dale Petry Issue #132 • November/December, 2011 Not long ago a friend called to say he had seen an unusual rifle at the local gun...

Sight and sound enhancement

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Big boomer guns

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Science

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

Gee-Whiz: Trees

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

A brief history of health and medicine

Politics and Commentary

Self-reliance equals freedom

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

Here are some answers to often-asked questions of anti-gunners

The black man’s worst enemy is not racism

Animals

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

By Gene Sheley Issue #50 • March/April, 1998 Near the top of North America's wildlife food chain is the mountain lion, a close second to bears...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Raising your own beef for your family

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Redworm farming

Self-Reliance

Cut your grocery bill in half

Homemade Toys! — Easy to make, fun to play with, and great for gifts!

Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself

Homestead Helpers

Farm and Garden

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...

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

By Joy Lamb Issue #39 • May/June, 1996 A huge brown beast stared at me as I drove through our apple orchard toward the house. I parked, walked quickly into the house, and said to my...

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