| Departments: |
| Country conversation | |
| "Indoor plumbing" without water, firearm accuracy, poison ivy cures, Russia, stocking the medicine cabinet, feminine hygiene, 1/8 acre market garden, newspaper firewood, goose eggs, homemade coffee filters and biscuit mix, a different way to butcher chickens, escaping debt, life in Louisiana, city living tough for country gal, Y2K not just 1 -day event, we're all different, factory hog farm, good old days weren't, no farewells yet, coming events | 11-30 |
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| Build this cabin in three weeks for under $2,0000 |
| Step-by-step photo story | 32 |
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| Special feature 1: |
| Equipping the "ideal" homestead in the 21st century |
| Alternative energy, refrigeration, heat, water, sewage and more | 40-53 |
| Who can afford this stuff? Probably you! | 44 |
| Who makes this stuff? Mostly small companies | 51 |
| Martha Stewart raises chickens: Sign of the future? | 52 |
| How the past is becoming the future | 53 |
| Selected sources | 53 |
| "Tooling" through the alphabet | 54 |
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| Special feature II |
| Round table discussion | |
| Someone reading this will be affected by "isolated" problems | 55 |
| Pectin and more pectin and herbs | 56 |
| Saving water, life on a former missile base, fly control, Y2K, and a headcheese recipe | 57 |
| Sand (water) filters and D.E.; winter growing, and saving seeds | 58 |
| Kerosene, and other topics | 59 |
| Northwoods homesteading | 60 |
| Computers: Conestoga wagons of modern homesteading! | 62-64 |
| Make a 12vdc battery charger | 64,104 |
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| Country kitchen | |
| Home-bottled beans and bean soups for quick and easy meals | 66 |
| Make jelly without pectin | 56,77 |
| Special projects | |
| How I made a stovetop oven | 67 |
| Is a "phantom" stealing your electricity? | 68 |
| Making soap, and more | 76 |
| Basic techniques for the homestead winery | 78-84 |
| Making sugar on the homestead | 84-86 |
| Build a 4-hour $10 root cellar | 102 |
| Construct a low-cost battery-charging genset | 104 |
| Pump water with compressed air | 110 |
| How to waterproof matches | 112 |
| Shop tips | 113 |
| Heating value of selected woods | 116 |
| The garden | |
| Growing winter profits: Organic produce from your solar greenhouse | 69 |
| How to grow great greenhouse cucumbers | 71 |
| Make your own seed tapes | 72 |
| Reports on home experiments | 96 |
| Our environment | |
| Is the pork you eat raised in a sewer? | 73 |
| Some hazards can be subtle: Effects of plastics? | 75 |
| Home business | |
| There's money in honey | 87 |
| Grow landscape plants in your backyard | 88 |
| There's a growing market for meat goats | 94 |
| Vegetable growers: think "markets, markets, markets! | 94 |
| Country neighbors | |
| Oregon: Enjoys modern conveniences | 89 |
| Illinois: No time to be bored | 91 |
| Minnesota: Garden experiments, and more | 96 |
| Puerto Rico: Not exactly a Garden of Eden | 99 |
| The home dairy | |
| Consider the Jersey | 93 |
| Drying off does | 93 |
| Y2K | |
| 11th hour news and observation | 118 |
| News from Spaceship Earth | 126 |
| The bookshelf | 114 |
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