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Animals

Build a poultry killing cone

Redworm farming

Bottle-raise a calf

Finding the best dog for the country life

Building

Woodbarrow

By Setanta O’Ceillaigh When I first abandoned a slum town and fled back to the countryside I gathered and carried firewood with a laundry basket....

Gabion walls for form and function

Build a barrel stove

Build a chicken tractor

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Farm and Garden

Tracing a bean

By Wren Everett The beans came to me as an accident. In the early spring of 2023, I was scouring The Exchange (exchange.seedsavers.org/home) — an online...

The Homestead Greenhouse

Testing Soil

Gardening for Treasure

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

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;...

Fried chicken for breakfast

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

The summer of ’35

Food and recipes

A Native American feast

Old World apple chutney

Comfort foods of Ireland – hearty recipes from Grandma’s old file box

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Self-reliance

Bath herbs

The adventures of a first-time homesteader

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Jackie’s tips for hardcore homesteading

Energy

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Solar-powered refrigerators

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Guns and Hunting

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • December, 2003 In Part I, we began a series of refreshers on safety and proper handling of firearms. This time,...

Moderate power firearms

Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

The light at the end of the gun

Science

Zombie Apocalypse

By John Silveira Issue #134 • March/April, 2012 "Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked. I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal,...