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Animals

Home Dairying

Mountain lions — Attacks are still rare, but just in case…

Raising Rabbits

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Building

Building and stocking your pantry

By Jackie Clay Issue #125 • September/October, 2010 At the turn of the 19th century, most country homes had a walk-in pantry, as well as a...

Build a stone wall

Ambidextrous chainsaw filing

Making and using a solar cooker

Life-long siding with fiber cement board

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants...

Tracing a bean

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Jackie’s Garden Primer

Growing Microgreens

Americana and History

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATIONWhereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the...

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The summer of ’35

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

Fly it proudly and properly

Food and recipes

Basic brown stock

Corn cob jelly

Venison Chili

Jo’s Kentucky-fried cole slaw

Self-reliance

Moving to the wilderness — Turning the dream to reality

7 Mistakes of food storage

For safety’s sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly

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

Energy

A solar primer — How it works, how it’s made, what it costs

Are hydrogen-fueled cars pie-in-the-sky?

Waterpower for personal use

Grid-tied, Grid-connected, Off-grid. What’s the difference?

Guns and Hunting

Tailoring guns to females

By Massad Ayoob Issue #131 • September/October, 2011 So, I'm sitting here in a hotel writing this, less than three hours after getting off the witness...

Get a piece of history — An M1 Garand rifle

Firearms handling refresher Part II: Shotguns

The M1A — A rifle that makes a statement

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

The coming ice age

By John Silveira Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 I'm putting my apocalyptic ice age novel, Danielle Kidnapped, on Amazon's Kindle and also producing a paperback version...