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| Country conversation | |
| Water conservation; drying food without electricity; hull-less oats save time; activated charcoal for cleaning teeth; cooling with evaporation; praise for Nigerian Dwarf goats; survival soup; small fruit; using natural dyes | 11-30 |
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| Coming events | 30 |
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| Question of the month |
| Experiencing a new millennium | 31 |
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| Special feature I: It's about time |
| How we use time determines what our lives are, what we are | 32 |
| It takes time to acquire tools and experience | 34 |
| Time saving devices | 36 |
| How many ways can you save time? | 38 |
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| Special feature II: Wilderness survival |
| Underground housing | 40 |
| Low cost homestead building | 45 |
| Fast survival axes from sandstone | 48 |
| Double doe's foot maul handle | 50 |
| There are many uses for cornhusks, including shoes | 53 |
| Make a lantern from recyclable materials | 54 |
| Guns on the homestead | 60 |
| Improve your firearm accuracy | 65 |
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| In the kitchen |
| Making jerky | 68 |
| Canning meat | 71 |
| Sausage making tips and procedures | 72 |
| Venison sausage | 73 |
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| Tanning |
| Don't tan... taw! | 75 |
| Indian tan leather | 76 |
| How to tan a rabbit skin | 78 |
| A cheap and easy method to tan sheepskins | 79 |
| Tanning with alum | 80 |
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| Foraging |
| Try foraging for a "free lunch" | 81 |
| Wild foods are part of homestead culture | 85 |
| Foraging in the animal kingdom | 86 |
| Eating dandelions could save your life | 89 |
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| Burdock: a valuable plant | 90 |
| Thinking about medicinal herbs | 92 |
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| Home energy |
| Build a gas-fired generator | 98 |
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| The garden |
| Grow vine-ripened tomatoes in solar/composting greenhouse | 100 |
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| The henhouse |
| Male birds need light stimulation, too | 103 |
| Letting rodents eat feed costs money | 104 |
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| The goat barn |
| Ketosis can kill pregnant does | 106 |
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| The rabbitry |
| Raise rabbits without cages | 108 |
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| Nature |
| Butterfly farming | 109 |
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| The Intentional Peasant |
| Those funny little green things | 112 |
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| Home business |
| From cabins to caskets | 114 |
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| Y2K update |
| It ain't over till it's over | 116 |
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| The adventures of Hatless Elmo | 119 |
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