| Section I, Phase I, The warning: |
| Bonus 21-page Newsletter |
| It's official: The end is near! | 6 |
| The Millennium Bug: How it will change civilization | 8 |
| Airlines grounded | 9 |
| Getting back to our roots | 12 |
| My vision of the Ideal Homestead | 13 |
| Countdown to 2000 | 15 |
| On defining a homesteader | 17 |
| The Countryside story: What's in a name | 18 |
| Countryside's "Three Phases" | 19 |
| Homesteading — The fantasy | 19 |
| If you want to homestead, do it now! | 20 |
| What went wrong: Learn from my mistakes | 21 |
| California irrigation: Object lesson for the new age? | 23 |
| Why the Millennium Bug scares me | 24 |
| "Probability Index" for suggested disasters | 26 |
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| Section II, Phase II, Doing it now: The Magazine |
| Features: |
| Conversation and feedback | 29 |
| Proposed rules on organic farming | 40 |
| Emergencies in the countryside | 43 |
| Managing your freezer during a power outage | 46 |
| "My Ideal Homestead" | 47 |
| Selecting farming tools, Part II | 49 |
| Starting wildflowers from seed | 53 |
| Using the humble soybean | 53 |
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| Departments: |
| Country kitchen |
| Cast iron in the country kitchen | 55 |
| Why eat whole foods? Some recipes that celebrate them | 56 |
| Can salsa | 58 |
| Planning for canning: Make a big job easier | 60 |
| Who ya gonna believe, Grandma, or the USDA? | 61 |
| Six potentially deadly canning sins | 61 |
| Favorite recipes for summer canning | 62 |
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| Alternative energy |
| Forecast for alternative energy: Sunny, and exciting! |
| Cook with the sun: Easy-to-make solar ovens | 65 |
| The hay box: The original slow cooker | 68 |
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| Domestic arts |
| 23 ways to save money | 70 |
| Cosmetics you can make in your kitchen | 70 |
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| The garden |
| Celery substitutes that are easy to grow | 71 |
| Saving tomato seeds | 71 |
| Tool care for dollars and sense | 104 |
| Growing lima beans | 72 |
| Companion Planting Guide | 109 |
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| The poultry yard |
| The pecking order — literally | 74 |
| Chicken flavor and genetics | 75 |
| Bloody eggs and vitamin deficiency | 76 |
| Chickens and hot weather | 76 |
| The 10 most common poultry diseases | 76 |
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| The goat barn |
| How big an exercise yard? | 77 |
| How many goats to feed a family? | 77 |
| Do goats need legume pastures? | 77 |
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| The sheep shed |
| Sheep cotes are ancient, but still useful | 78 |
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| The family cow |
| Sheep cotes are ancient, but still useful | 78 |
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| The family cow |
| The American Milking Devon | 80 |
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| Feeds & feeding |
| Recipes for animal treats | 82 |
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| The orchard |
| Restoring old apple trees | 83 |
| Taming the wild apple tree | 85 |
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| The woodlot |
| Multipurpose woodlots need management too | 86 |
| Some trees start getting ready for winter in August | 86 |
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| Living with nature |
| Poison ivy: Why it's a pain, and what to do about it | 87 |
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| Home health |
| A home remedy whose time has come again: Aromatherapy | 88 |
| How to relieve a headache without medication | 89 |
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| Country neighbors |
| Doing a lot with a little land | 90 |
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| Money management |
| Cheap is good; free is best (The Intentional Peasant) | 91 |
| Do you really need credit life or mortgage insurance? | 93 |
| The $700 solution | 94 |
| A real sign of the times | 95 |
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| The bookshelf |
| The Home Machinist's Handbook; Math for Those Who Build; Guide to Emergency Survival Communications; Tough, Willing, and Able | 98 |
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| Vanishing old-time arts and skills |
| The science of making moonshine | 100 |
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| The back porch |
| Grandma Rogers and the Unthinkable | 103 |
| Irradiation and mad cow disease | 105 |
| News from Spaceship Earth | 107 |
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| The Countryside Calendar |
| What to do in July and August | 109 |
| What to do now "just in case" | 110 |
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| Section III, Phase III, Homesteading in the 21st century: |
| The Book (Part 1 of a 10-part series) |
| What kind of future do we want? | 112 |
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| Also... |
| Food no longer provides nutrition | 29 |
| These hornets don't like strangers | 29 |
| Dream farm turns into a nightmare | 30 |
| That Cub tractor is back! | 30 |
| Goat milk mozzarella | 32 |
| Another spider bite experience | 32 |
| Community cannery has a helpful guide | 32 |
| Our magazine is hard to find, but at least it's focussed! | 33 |
| Money and interest: | 33 |
| A spoiled city brat? | 34 |
| Diaper dilemma | 34 |
| Sheep thinks she's a Rottweiller | 35 |
| It's just for a while | 35 |
| Anybody have a bone grinder they aren't using? | 36 |
| Wise words of warning on wonderful Wyoming | 36 |
| Farm tours provide extra income | 38 |
| Some old-time tips on chickens and uses for pork rinds: | 39 |
| Household hints | 104 |
| How to get rid of fleas | 107 |
| Figuring the cost of hay | 111 |
| Where to find penpals | 117 |
| The homestead lifestyle | 117 |
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| Charts: |
| Nutrient content of some common fertilizer materials | 42 |
| Companion planting guide | 108 |
| How to measure the capacity of bins and mows | 109 |
| Seed longevity | 110 |
| Livestock weather hazard guide | 111 |
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