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Animals

A contrary guide to feeding animals

Broody biddies make sense on the homestead

Good-bye old friend

Keeping homestead animals healthy

Building

Building and Using Wattle Fences

By Kathryn Wingrove Issue #139 • January/February, 2013 Wattle fences are made by weaving material in and out of posts in the ground. They were often...

Adventures with a portable sawmill

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Build an attached solar greenhouse

Build a Top-Bar Bee Hive

Farm and Garden

Blueberry Cash Crop

By Ed Mashburn Issue #130 • July/August, 2011 My almost two-year-old grandson loves blueberries. Put a bowl of those round blue jewels in front of him,...

Making Apple Cider with a Homemade Press

Gardening in the Desert Using Only Rainwater

Pruning Blueberries

Plant Your Trees in the Spring

Americana and History

Doesn’t anyone remember Tom Paine

By Robert L. Williams Issue #19 • January/February, 1993 Many years ago, before I came to my senses and left public education for good, I was...

Remembering what grandma used

Constitution of the united States of America

The summer of ’35

The barnyard scramble

Food and recipes

Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation

Making Yogurt

Italian Christmas bread

Turkey the old-fashioned way

Self-reliance

Commonsense preparedness just makes sense

Homestead burnout — What it is and how to avoid it

A young couple moves to the country

Based on years of personal experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children

Energy

Power Up

Solar-powered chicken coop

Solar power trailer Part 2

Don’t discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source

Guns and Hunting

Hiding a gun — The rules of three

By Claire Wolfe Issue #140 • March/April, 2013 My friend Jack pulled the car into a grassy clearing. We donned rubber boots, fetched a metal detector...

Of guns and snakes

Answering some well asked questions about personal defense

Hunting, processing, and serving black bear

Big boomer guns

Science

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...