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Keeping homestead animals healthy

How to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Getting logs

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • March, 2004 Online Exclusive April 2003 Attention: Would-be loggers. There have been changes in policy at the United States Forest Service...

Install rafters alone the easy way

Tools and hardware for the backwoods home

Growing Potatoes in Straw

By Habeeb Salloum Issue #100 • July/August, 2006 Virtually unknown to people in other parts of the world, the inhabitants in the Northern European countries have...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

By John Silveira Issue #34 • July/August, 1995 (This is a four-part series. Click the links to navigate to parts one, two, three, and four.) Do I...

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

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Former first ladies — Beautiful, brilliant, crazy

Medical kits for self-reliant families

Cash in on your household junk

Picking a holster

By Massad Ayoob Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 One good thing about being out in the boonies by yourself is that you can carry a gun...

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

Theories of the universe

By Dave Duffy Issue #66 • November/December, 2000 In a relatively short span of time, mankind has travelled from profound ignorance of our planet and the...

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

The world is coming to an end… and this time, I’m...

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

Questions about global warming

Losing our rights as we watch television

Home Dairying

By Marcella Shaffer Issue #64 • July/August, 2000 There is a big difference between home dairying to produce food for your family and dairying to sell...

Raising Rabbits

By Linda Gabris Issue #133 • January/February, 2012 If you take pride and pleasure in growing your own organic garden foods and raising your own chemical-free...

Raising cattle on your own place

Hog butchering — Using everything but the squeal

Where our farm animals come from

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Boost your income by adding a processing step to what you sell

Self-reliance for women — Surviving a biochemical attack

Seventeen great tips for caring for windows, mirrors, and other household glass

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding and productive fruits I can grow in our Zone 2...

Nut Trees on Your Homestead

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #149 • September/October, 2014 While growing up in Detroit, we had no nut trees in our yard (though we did have seedlings before I left home). That didn't stop my parents, though....