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Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

Make a Quick and Easy Tipi

By Bob Van Putten Issue #174 • November/December, 2018 The native peoples of North America were a very practical lot. Over the centuries they developed some...

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

Build a Heated Germination Bed

How to build a good fence for your homestead

Build your own home in two years — Get a PhD...

Plant Your Irish Potatoes This Fall or Winter

By Robert L. Williams Issue #48 • November/December, 1997 My family has made a practice of planting Irish potatoes in the fall rather than in the...

Leaf Mold is Another Way to Build Your Soil

Here’s a Mighty Creative Way to Protect Your Plants from Animals

Catfish Biscuits

By Danny Fulks Issue #87 • May/June, 2004 Danny Fulks, 71, grew up in southern Ohio where his parents worked the land and milked cows, and...

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

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Your survival depends on water

10 tips for selling your homemade product

Couponing, refunding, and stockpiling will make your money stretch

Just for Kids: Sun-kabobs and solar sizzle

Sunny Solutions for north slope applications

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...

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

Firearms — Tools of rural living

How to shoot a handgun accurately

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...

Science and truth. Are they related?

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

Sgt. Jim Duffy — An ordinary hero

Loading the gun for a dictatorship

Should both drugs and guns be legal?

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

By Allen Easterly Issue #101 • September/October, 2006 Raising quail is inexpensive, easy, provides very healthy low-fat white meat, and supplies the fertilizer you need for...

Raising rabbits for profit

By Carrie Peterson Issue #106 • July/August, 2007 Whether or not you are fond of rabbit stew, raising rabbits for meat can be a great experience...

Chickens — The most valuable animal on the homestead

Build a chicken feeder on the cheep cheep cheep

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Raising cattle on your own place

Build a holz hausen to dry firewood

By Setanta O'Ceillaigh  Issue #160 • July/August, 2016 The cycle never ends: As soon as one garden pest is dealt with, another takes its place. Last...

For Extra Production, Try Mound Gardening

By Edward Love Johnson Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 I began experimenting with mound gardening several years ago, due to limited garden space. Then as time went by, I found other reasons (or should I say...