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All around the homestead


• Equipping the “ideal” homestead in the 21st century

• How many ways can you save time?

• Are you depriving your kids?

Your homestead business


• Selecting and starting your ideal home business

• Marketing your crafts

• Wholesale vs. retail, Part I: Retail

Alternative energy


• Purchasing and using a masonry stove

• Is homegrown wind power right for you?

• Solar hot water, anyone? System options for every climate

Homestead Construction


• Energy efficient homes

• Designing your ideal homestead

• Build your own solar shower for pennies

Country kitchen


• Learning to cook on a woodstove

• Sourdough bread variations

• Stocking your emergency food pantry

Homestead crafts


• Design your own insulating window quilts

• A second life for bluejeans

• Rags to rugs

Crops & soils


• The soul of soil

• Composting at home

• No-till, permanent bed farming

Homestead finances


• How to thrive on half your income

• How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 and lived to tell about it!

• Coping with today’s economy

The garden


• Grow herbs in winter

• Scarecrows that actually work

• The $2 garden

Homestead livestock


• Livestock on the homestead

• Donkeys on the homestead

• The importance of biodiversity in livestock production

• Getting started with bees

• Selecting cattle for your small farm

• Start your own meat goat herd

• Draft horses—as useful today as ever

• Raising your own backyard pig

• Raising ducks and geese on pasture

• Fundamental principles of rabbit feeding

• Milking sheep offer a new small farm alternative

In the wild


• Milkweed: A truly remarkable wild vegetable

• Wild onions—punchy, pungent, perfect

• Wild parsnip: It’s like raiding a garden, but better

Notes from the Northwoods


• Eating out of your garden

• Build a homestead one-log hauler

• Building and using a midwest solar food dryer

Self-reliance/Survival


• How to purify water in an emergency

• Lost in the wilderness! Tips to help you emerge safely

• A simple hand-warming heater you can make yourself

Homestead water


• How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off

• Conservation tips for everyone

• Homestead water procurement

Read more in the Countryside Library