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Keeping homestead animals healthy

Finding the best dog for the country life

Build a Groundhog Snare

By Allen Easterly Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 In just a few minutes your completed snare is ready to put an end to your groundhog woes....

Adventures with a portable sawmill

For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the...

Build an inexpensive but durable jackleg fence

Testing Soil

By Tom Kovach Issue #119 • September/October, 2009 Testing the soil content of a garden is very important and is quite easy to do. Soil tests...

Seven tactics for planning next year’s garden

Build a Heated Germination Bed

Declaration of Independence: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States...

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political...

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

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

The greatest American who was never President

From Martha and Abigail to Dolley and Louisa, America’s earliest First...

If you can boil water you can make a good stew

Water development for the homestead: Ponds, cisterns, and tanks

The return of home emergency shelters takes on a dual-purpose approach

Generators alone are not enough

The time for modern; the time for traditional

By Massad Ayoob Issue #137 • September/October, 2012 Traditional "old skool" guns, or the most modern and efficient ballistic hardware that money can buy? I asked...

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

How long should your gun’s barrel length be?

Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken?

By John Silveira Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 Do you have chickens, ducks, turkeys, or geese in your yard? They’re not “just birds” because scientists now...

The threat of electromagnetic pulse!

The Government gorilla in our home

Guns Save Lives Chapter 1: Point Blank

The destruction of the mass print media will help save freedom in America

Finding the best dog for the country life

By Anita Evangelista Issue #63 • May/June, 2000 When you're looking for a dog to fit into your country life, there are few other topics as...

Dorper sheep — Revolutionizing the meat sheep industry

By Darlene Polachic Issue #75 • May/June, 2002 If Henry Soderberg's predictions are right, Dorper sheep could revolutionize the meat sheep industry. A South African breed...

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

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

Protein — The Cornerstone of a Survival Diet

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part I

10 tips for selling your homemade product

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

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

By Alice B. Yeager Issue #52 • July/August, 1998 Everyone likes a good success story, and if I were called upon to name the most successful tree in our small orchard I'd have to say it's...

Clover — From Livestock Forage to Medicinal Tea, This Humble Plant is One of...

By Eugene Mitchell Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 Whether young or old, lying in the grass and searching for four-leafed clovers is timeless fun. Sometimes they're so elusive, like the leprechaun, it seems they don't exist....