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Animals

Raising your own beef for your family

Switch your family to goat’s milk

Beekeeping basics

Brooder in a box

Building

Building a $3,000 Barn

By Robert Van Putten Issue #169 • January/February, 2018 There comes a time when all homesteaders start thinking of livestock, and 14 years ago, we were...

Making a wooden kitchen countertop

Build a wood crib with free materials

Build this sturdy large-capacity food dehydrator

Three Raised Bed Designs

Farm and Garden

A Child’s Garden — More than Child’s Play

By Jackie Clay Issue #69 • May/June, 2001 There are many things parents can give their children, other than plastic toys or a few bucks to...

The Home Citrus Orchard

Gleaning — An Old Tradition Made New

The Best City Garden

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Americana and History

Oregon Trail preparedness: What supplies did the settlers carry?

By Don Lewis Issue #176 • April/May/June, 2019 The year was 1834, a year that didn’t really stand out as all that particularly important in American...

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

George Washington Carver — He wrote the book on self-reliance

The time-travel ad

Farm baseball … with ghost runners!

Food and recipes

The healthy kitchen — Good spoons, knives, and food

Mac’s lamb curry bake

Root vegetable casserole

Four Breads for the Bread Machine

Self-reliance

Power Up Light, Water, Communications in Emergencies

Harvest your own firewood

Get out of debt, stay out of debt

Start your food storage on $10 a week

Energy

Battery powered weekend retreat

Amateur Ham Radio – The Ultimate Tool for Survival Communications

Energy class: Part 2 — Understanding your electric bill

Water pumping windmills

Guns and Hunting

Understanding the gun debate, part 3

By Massad Ayoob Issue #163 • January/February, 2017 Click Here to read Part 1 Click Here to read Part 2 As noted in the two previous parts of...

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Consider the 20-gauge shotgun

Air power superiority

The subtleties of safe firearms handling

Science

The ‘risks’ with Swine Flu

By John Silveira Issue #118 • July/August, 2009 Do we have anything to worry about the reemergence of Swine Flu Novel Influenza A (H1N1) ...

A brief history of health and medicine

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

Gee-Whiz: Presidents

Theories of the universe

Politics and Commentary

Defending your lifestyle

ID cards are an idea whose time should never come

My View: Grand Theory vs. Stark Reality

10 traits for better living

Animals

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...

Brooder in a box

By Sylvia Gist Issue #80 • March/April, 2003 It's spring and the farm store has a tempting variety of baby chicks begging for you to take...

Good-bye old friend

The homestead cat

Llamas guarding sheep? — Not such a far-fetched idea

Raising cattle on your own place

Self-Reliance

An Introduction to Small-Scale Home Hydroponics

Intake and exhaust upgrades for better mileage and performance

The cholesterol in your stovepipe can be fatal

Annie on Everfree Farm, Part III

Farm and Garden

Tea for the garden

By Lisa Nourse We have poor soil and do our best to amend it with compost and manure every year. However, we feel our plants still need a boost throughout the growing season. We like...

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You Can Make Your Own Fertilizers

By Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Issue #44 • March/April, 1997 For some people, home gardening is an expensive pursuit, which seems a bit backward to us. At one time, people gardened because home-grown produce was...

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