| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| Coming events | 29 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Illuminating the new solar tax incentives | 30 |
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| Alternative energy: |
| Off the grid at age 57...and beyond | 32 |
| Hybrid hype or hope? The straight dope on gasoline electric vehicles | 39 |
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| Notes from the Northwoods: |
| Need seating? Build a couch! | 41 |
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| Your homestead business: |
| Funding your home craft business | 45 |
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| Save electricity—Learn to play the banjo! | 48 |
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| Homestead landscape: |
| Finding something deer won't eat | 56 |
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| The garden: |
| The gardening game | 60 |
| The importance of keeping good garden records | 63 |
| Gardening with a waterbed | 64 |
| Growing organic strawberries | 65 |
| Herb gardening the easy way | 70 |
| Make flavored vinegar | 73 |
| He's hooked on deep mulch gardening—thanks to Ruth | 74 |
| Caring for carrots | 78 |
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| The country kitchen: |
| Grow your own stir-fry | 76 |
| The soups that I cherish | 81 |
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| Foraging: |
| Basswood: The ultimate wild salad plant | 79 |
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| Homestead health: |
| Homeopathic remedies for bee stings | 85 |
| Avian flu demystified | 86 |
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| Livestock health: |
| Homeopathy for your livestock | 88 |
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| The rabbit barn: |
| Rabbit grooming doesn't require special tools | 88 |
| Nest box provides protection | 89 |
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| Veterinary medicine in the 1800s | 90 |
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| The henhouse: |
| Tweaking a chicken tractor plan | 92 |
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| The cow barn: |
| If you want a hearty breed, raise Highland cattle | 94 |
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| Frugality on the homestead: |
| Tightwad genes and "recycled" toilet paper | 96 |
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| Preparing your family for the next Great Depression | 97 |
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| Question of the month: |
| What can you do with a leach field? | 101 |
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| Homestead repair: |
| Keep your extension cords safe | 103 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| Home is where your heart is | 104 |
| A young person's look at homesteading | 104 |
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| Looking back: |
| Living the homestead life at an orphanage | 112 |
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| Astronomy on the homestead? "Oh, heavens!" | 114 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack for Early Spring 2006 | 117 |
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| After Chores: |
| Love on the homestead | 130 |
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