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Animals

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Building

PVC pipe in the home, garden, farm, and workshop

By Charles Sanders Issue #94 • July/August, 2005 Perhaps one of the most important innovations in modern plumbing has been the development of polyvinyl chloride (PVC),...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

The house that Dorothy built

Build a portable woodstove for $30

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Woodchuck-Proof the Garden

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

Your Manure Pile — For Fuel, Fertilizer, and Maybe Even Improved...

Converting a Gasoline-Powered Rototiller to Electric

The Best City Garden

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Fried chicken for breakfast

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung...

Food and recipes

Country-style Pork Stew

Green tomato kosher dill pickles

Stewed tomatoes

Pita bread

Self-reliance

35 country jobs — How folks make a living near my hometown

10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25

Clean up your act!

The many benefits of garlic

Energy

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Build a community assistance recharging station

Prepper power! Part 2

Guns and Hunting

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...

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

BHM hosts Appleseed marksmanship event

Moderate power firearms

Science

A brief history of health and medicine

By John Silveira Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 As little as a century ago, the average life span in the United States was 49 years. Today...

How big is the solar system?

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The coming ice age

Gee-Whiz: Bad Fish, Big Fish

Politics and Commentary

Defending against terrorists

How do you save freedom in America?

Home handgun defense — Simplicity suffices

How America can be saved from stupid people

Animals

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

By Charles Sanders Issue #142 • July/August, 2013 A 450-pound hog will provide a lot of delicious meat. Hogs are raised throughout our neighboring Amish community for...

Finding, buying, milking, and living with the family milk cow

By Jayn Steidl Thibodeau Issue #36 • November/December, 1995 Have you ever had this happen to you? You've opened the refrigerator door for a cold, refreshing...

Goat birthing and raising kids

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Once a day milking

Self-Reliance

Harvesting the wild: Acorns

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

Battery-Powered Tools are Changing

Homeschooling through high school

Farm and Garden

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

By Robert Van Putten Issue #170 • March/April, 2018 Apples are an important food resource for us. Every year we store hundreds of pounds in our root cellar where they will keep for up to six...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the early spring. We tried it both ways for many years...