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Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

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

Herb Boxes from Fence Boards

By Maggie Larsen Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 During a binge of spring cleaning, I ventured outside and began to renovate the exterior of my home,...

Install rafters alone the easy way

A house a tornado helped build

Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill

Time to Forget About Snail and Slug Bait

By Lyle Dykes Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 Years ago when traveling on business, I looked out of the window of my motel one morning in...

Prevent Foodborne Illness with Safe Gardening Methods

Solar-Powered Electric Fencing

Grow some winter squash this year

Feeling nostalgic? Now you’ll rave! Here’s the story of Burma Shave.

By Martin Waterman Issue #37 • January/February, 1996 I can remember taking a trip as a child and seeing my first Burma Shave signs. Technically speaking,...

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

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

Homeschooling through high school

Caring for wounds in the field

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 2

Walden Pond — the solar version: Part 2

Firearms handling refresher Part III: Rifles

By Massad Ayoob Website Exclusive • January, 2004 Our three part series on firearms handling ends with this installment. In Part I, we covered handguns and...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

Choose your ammo… police style

Avian Flu — How afraid of this

Issue #97 • January/February, 2006 There's been a lot of talk in the mass media...

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

How environmental ideology hurts the solar energy industry

My View: Gaining an Appreciation for Risk

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

Homemade bread: a metaphor for life

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

By Karen McGeorge Sanders Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 It seems that farmers always need an extra pair of hands, but finding the money to pay...

A contrary guide to feeding animals

By Beth Greenwood Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 The Purinas, Cargills, and Con-Agras of the world would have you believe that they and they alone have...

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman’s ‘Non-electric’ Hardware Store

By Hook or Crook: A Billhook is a Handy Homestead Tool

Food security 101, part 3: Why I love my vacuum sealer (and more)

Buy your country place from the government

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 seed-savers trading post of sorts — looking for squash seeds....

Cheaper than Store-Bought Eggs

By Kristina Seleshanko Issue #177 • July/August/September, 2019 Something we heard a lot when we first started raising chickens in the suburbs was, “For the cost of raising those birds, you could buy an awful lot...