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Kinder goats — A small breed for milk and meat

How to buy your first sheep without getting shorn

Where our farm animals come from

The Forever Floor

By David Lee Issue #92 • March/April, 2005 It is pretty devious starting off an article with an exaggeration but now that I have your attention...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

How to Resurrect Old, Rusted Tools

Propagating Grapes

By Sylvia Gist Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 As a kid in western South Dakota, I enjoyed picking wild grapes and using the delightful juice they...

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...

Constitution of the united States of America

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

Emancipation Proclamation by Historical Document

American food — It’s as varied as the melting pot

Tips and tricks for the kitchen

Apple-glazed Barbecued Chicken with Spring Vegetables

The 7 core areas of preparedness

Teach your kids math with the banking game

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

Building the coyote rifle

By Rev. J.D. Hooker Issue #107 • September/October, 2007 Feral dogs, coyotes, and those odd-looking "coy dogs" like to feed on my neighbors' livestock on occasion...

Firearms and cold weather considerations

Subduction zone tsunami — What the residents of the Pacific Northwest...

By John Silveira Issue #94 • July/August, 2004 I was sitting in my cubicle poring over a map of the Oregon coastactually, just that...

Gee-Whiz: Ice Ages, Past and Future

A brief history of health and medicine

The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you

The logic behind term limits and a historical perspective

Self-reliance is a mindset — A woman’s opinion

Magnesium and the International Criminal Court

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

By James Kash Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Broodiness is an avian behavior that is frowned upon in the world of agriculture. All industrial agriculturalists cull...

Build a poultry killing cone

By Allen Easterly Issue #135 • May/June, 2012 You've worked hard and spent many hours raising your pretty flock of meat chickens from eggs or chicks...

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

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

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

Raising quail — A home grown delicacy

Seed art — It’s fun to collect the seeds and create these unusual pictures

Learning to love the high desert

Starting a Roadside Farm Stand

Grow Garlic and Reap Health Benefits

By Alice B. Yeager Photos by James O. Yeager Issue #98 • March/April, 2006 Garlic is one of our oldest herbs on record. Anyone can grow garlic without having to hover over it, hoping that it produces....

Propagating Plants

By Jackie Clay Issue #128 • March/April, 2011 We all love the idea of having a big, productive garden, full of all the nutritious, tasty foods our hearts desire. But the prices in the nursery catalogs...