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| Country conversation | |
| How they kept soot out of the chimney; Another view on cisterns; Double digging experiment; They need egg and cheese canning tips; Daisy didn’t read the manual; Mennonite cookbook source; Don’t throw out working cream separators; Recycle a satellite dish; Blunt is better for lightning rods; Red Wattle hogs wanted; Looks can be deceiving | 8 |
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| Coming events | 31 |
| Countryside contacts | 33 |
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| Special feature: |
| Heirlooms |
| What makes a plant an heirloom? | 34 |
| The struggle of Association Kokopelli | 36 |
| Planting and harvesting your herb garden | 38 |
| Herbs: As useful today as they were centuries ago | 42 |
| Add an herb "theme" garden to your landscape | 44 |
| Antique flower bulbs | 46 |
| Grow a medicinal herb garden | 48 |
| Super-sweet stevia | 50 |
| Heirloom seed and plant sources | 52 |
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| Slow food—A Celebration of Life | 54 |
| Slow food homesteading style | 56 |
| Baked beans and stews | 58 |
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| Olive oil | 60 |
| Breads survive the passage of time | 61 |
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| Bean flour gravies and sauces | 65 |
| Picking and preserving the wild plum | 66 |
| Cranberries—not just for holidays | 67 |
| Filberts are easy to grow | 68 |
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| The garden |
| Growing winter raspberries | 70 |
| Are walnuts causing your garden to wilt? | 72 |
| Agroforestry may be the "crop" of the future | 72 |
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| New Mexico battles bark beetles | 73 |
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| Caring for your drainfield | 74 |
| Landscaping your drainfield | 76 |
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| How to sharpen your garden tools | 77 |
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| The solar cowboy |
| Site analysis | 79 |
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| Notes from the northwoods |
| Disposables be gone! | 81 |
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| The therapuetic qualities of essential oils | 84 |
| Natural remedies for fleas | 87 |
| Make your own fly paper | 88 |
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| Rejuvenating your pasture | 89 |
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| The goat barn |
| Poisonous plants | 90 |
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| The horse barn |
| Caring for your horse’s hooves | 93 |
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| The rabbit barn |
| How to sex rabbits | 95 |
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| The hen house |
| Tips on getting hens to lay in cold weather | 96 |
| Poultry litter for fertilizer research | 96 |
| Predator in the henhouse | 96 |
| Free-ranging birds and parasite infection | 97 |
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| The poultry barn |
| A pigeon feeding primer | 98 |
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| The machine shed |
| Reduce risks when buying used machinery | 98 |
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| The Dollar Saver |
| Reduce the pain of property taxes | 99 |
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| Country neighbors |
| Just do it! | 101 |
| Time to relinquish the critters | 104 |
| This is the good life | 106 |
| A day in the life of homesteaders | 108 |
| In praise of geese | 111 |
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| News from spaceship Earth | 113 |
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