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Animals

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Finding the best dog for the country life

Is that a good pig?

Good-bye old friend

Building

Install rafters alone the easy way

By Robert L. Williams Issue #35 • September/October, 1995 Anyone who has ever worked on roof framing knows that nailing up rafters is a two-man job...

Build your own portable forge

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

A Kid-Friendly Chicken Coop

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Farm and Garden

Meat For the Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Meat is often the most expensive portion of our grocery bill, and it is getting more and more...

Gardening the Year ‘Round

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Growing Productive Strawberries

Americana and History

The Great Depression — A reminiscence

By Alice B. Yeager and James O. Yeager Issue #115 • January/February, 2009 I was a girl of 8 when the stock market crashed in 1929....

Grandpa’s justice

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

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

Biological and chemical weapons through history

Food and recipes

Bread pudding

Pear honey

Stovetop Teriyaki

Bologna sandwiches and roasted rabbit

Self-reliance

Jim Van Camp: Coffee roaster, painter

Buy your country place from the government

Essential oils

Foraging for wild berries

Energy

7 Solar Water Heating System Designs

Prepper power! Part 2

Job site solar power

Keeping your food cold — Solutions to refrigeration when electricity is scarce

Guns and Hunting

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...

Of guns and snakes

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Building the coyote rifle

Science

A doomsday scenario to sleep on

By John Silveira Issue #109 • January/February, 2008 I once wrote a science fiction novel that I never tried to sell. Titled The Perfect Defense, its...