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Animals

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

Build a poultry killing cone

Forget the dog, chicken is man’s best friend

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Building

Build A Hybrid Go-Kart For Kids For $150

By Dorothy Ainsworth Website Exclusive • May, 2010 Grandma Clara used to delight in telling us the story of our Dad's first complete sentence at age...

Eye-catching signs with mirrors

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

Build a deluxe barrel stove

Never underestimate a woman

Farm and Garden

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...

Growing Strawberries

Grow some winter squash this year

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

Plant Once Harvest for Years

Americana and History

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

By Tom Kovach Growing up on a farm in north-central Minnesota wasn’t all chores and hard work … although there was plenty of that too....

The vanishing outhouse

Habeeb Salloum — Poet, Traveler, Recipe Writer

Who were the best…and worst U.S. Presidents?

Remembering what grandma used

Food and recipes

Black Bean and Avocado Dip

Fermented dill pickles

Duck with Mushrooms

Grilled Chicken with Pineapple-Peach Sauce

Self-reliance

Roasting coffee on a wood stove

Funerals don’t have to be expensive

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Easy-to-make reusable coffee filters

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Solar Power 101 — Batteries: Part 1

Water pumping windmills

Energy class: Part 3

Guns and Hunting

1911: The classic homeland security pistol

By Massad Ayoob Issue #83 • September/October, 2003 If you've read American firearms history at all, you know the lore of the .45 automatic. How during...