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Animals

Slaughtering and Butchering

Are aliens stealing our honeybees?

Raising your own beef

Home Dairying

Building

A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity

By Jackie Clay-Atkinson Issue #152 • March/April, 2015 Here's the finished vanity with our unfinished dresser that will store our extra towels and linens. We've had our log...

Build a Trapper’s Tilt

This coop is for the birds

Build a Simple, Inexpensive Greenhouse

Free pallet wood and birdhouses add up to big country dollars

Farm and Garden

Growing Productive Strawberries

By Edna Manning Issue #86 • March/April, 2004 Here on the Canadian prairies, I have found strawberries to be perhaps one of the most delicious, least-demanding...

Gardening Tips and Tricks

Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style

No Worrying About Fire Blight with Orient and Kieffer Pears

Growing and Using Peppers

Americana and History

Grandpa’s justice

By Tom Kovach Issue #65 • September/October, 2000 Having the best vegetable garden in the village might put food on the table and make some money...

Presidents’ wives of the past Part 3

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

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

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

Food and recipes

Chicken San Francisco

Food security 101: part 2 — Convenience mixes make life easier

Piccalilli — A late summer bonus

Old-fashioned applesauce cake

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Clean up your act!

Simplifying simplicity

Mosquitoes outnumber us and no one likes them

Energy

Build a community assistance recharging station

Get the most out of your vehicle and your maintenance dollar

Solar Building Design

Solar-powered refrigerators

Guns and Hunting

Military surplus and military “clone” rifles

By Massad Ayoob Issue #116 • March/April, 2009 One reader writes to ask if military surplus rifles are still a good idea for hunting, recreational shooting,...

The time for modern; the time for traditional

The light at the end of the gun

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Science

Three more ways the world can end … and I’m not...

By John Silveira Issue #155 • September/October, 2015 "What are you doing?" a voice asked. I looked up and saw O.E. MacDougal, Dave's poker-playing friend from Southern...