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Animals

Finding the best dog for the country life

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

Goat birthing and raising kids

Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

Building

Building and using wattle fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Five building tricks for super strong framing

We built John Silveira’s chicken coop/garden

From triumph to tragedy to triumph again. Dorothy Ainsworth makes her...

Build your own portable forge

Farm and Garden

Vermicomposting — Raise Worms to Consume Waste, Amend Soil, and Earn...

By Rebekah L. Cowell Photos by Amanda Egdorf-Sand Issue #124 • July/August, 2010 Vermicomposting takes composting to another level using Eisenia foetida (commonly known as red wiggler,...

You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

Graft Your Own Designer Fruit Trees

Fruit Trees

Use Plastic to Get a Head Start on Corn in the...

Americana and History

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....

Catfish Biscuits

Constitution of the united States of America

Fried chicken for breakfast

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

Elderberries — Hospitality, Health, And Beauty

Easy raspberry jam

Cheesy fish chowder

Corn cob jelly

Self-reliance

Stashing Junk Silver for Bad Times

Getting logs

Woodstove cooking

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Energy

Add solar power to your truck camper

Battery powered weekend retreat

Homemade electric power

Grid-tie solar-powered farm

Guns and Hunting

Choose your ammo… police style

By Massad Ayoob Issue #93 • May/June, 2005 One of our greatest modern gun experts, Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC, Ret., once made the observation that...