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Where our farm animals come from

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Claw Hammers

By R.E. Rawlinson Scottish writer and philosopher Thomas Carlyle observed that “Man is a tool using animal … without tools he is nothing, with tools...

Install rafters alone the easy way

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

By Kristina Seleshanko There are few things I enjoy more than snuggling up next to the woodstove with a cup of coffee and my garden...

How to become a backyard beekeeper

Garden Spaces for Small Places

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....

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Quilts — Masterpieces of the heart and windows into women’s history

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool

Step onto the ice and catch tonight’s dinner

Making a great rug from the rag bag

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

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

Solar system codes — Build it right!

How to select the right backup generator

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

By Massad Ayoob Issue #136 • July/August, 2012 The person new to guns is like the person new to timepieces. "How many of these things are...

Centennial of the All-American .30-06

Firearms handling refresher Part I: Handguns

Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat...

Science and truth. Are they related?

By John Silveira Issue #46 • July/August, 1997 It was an argument about science. Dave and I were on one side, Dave's friends Tom and Bill,...

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

ID cards are an idea whose time should never come

A reason for the Second Amendment

How to fix your aching back using the McKenzie Method

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

By Anita Evangelista Issue #32 • March/April, 1995 Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty was once asked the secret of becoming rich. He's reported to have said, "I...

Raising your own beef

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #175 • January/February/March, 2019 Every time I sit down to enjoy a wonderful beef roast or perfectly grilled steak, I am so...

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

This St. Bernard backwoods hero saved old Grandma’s life

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

Switch your family to goat’s milk

The poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove

How to become a backyard beekeeper

By Sheri Jones If you’ve been intrigued by the idea of becoming a beekeeper but think you don’t have the space, resources, or knowledge, you’re about to be pleasantly surprised. Backyard beekeeping is a lot...

Secure and Economical Livestock Feed

By Sherry Willis Issue #145 • January/February, 2014 The recent droughts in the midwest have meant hard times for many livestock owners. Areas without irrigation saw parched earth without a scrap of green anywhere. Corn withered...