| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| COUNTRYSIDE contacts | 30 | |
| Coming events | 31 | |
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| Features: |
| Build it yourself |
| Build a wood-burning cookstove from a steel barrel | 32 |
| An easy, inexpensive, low-tech shower system | 34 |
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| The machine shed: |
| Build your own one finger tailgate lift | 36 |
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| The smithy: |
| E-z grass snake | 39 |
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| Getting started: |
| Should we survey? | 40 |
| A dream gone bust | 42 |
| Daughter's lack of electricity enhances this mom's tale | 44 |
| Life in the hogan: Simple and happy | 46 |
| So you want to be a homesteader Where should you start? | 48 |
| Advice for new homesteaders | 50 |
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| Homestead water: |
| Ripples in the stream | 52 |
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| Survival tips: |
| Lost in the wilderness! Tips to help you emerge safely | 54 |
| A simple hand-warming heater you can make yourself | 56 |
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| Whitetail tracks: Is it a buck or a doe? | 57 |
| Food security is a real issue | 60 |
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| The garden: |
| Thrift in the garden | 63 |
| Great gardens begin with seed catalogs | 64 |
| Heirloom tomatoes: They grow great in Green Bay | 70 |
| Keep pests out of your house | 71 |
| Lasagna gardening is the way to go | 72 |
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| Homestead foraging: |
| Mushrooms and more | 66 |
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| Notes from the Northwoods: |
| A root cellar for food and storage | 73 |
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| Trees and vegetables have different needs | 77 |
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| The country kitchen: |
| Bread making basics | 78 |
| Sourdough bread variations | 83 |
| Acres of apples-Frugal to the core | 84 |
| Stuffed vegetables fit for a sultan | 90 |
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| Alternative medicine: |
| Frankincense, myrrh, and more: Oils that heal | 94 |
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| Holiday harvest at Far Out Farms | 96 |
| Tips for a merry-and green-holiday season | 97 |
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| The henhouse: |
| Raising chickens the easy way | 98 |
| Ideas for your chickens' enjoyment | 99 |
| Rare birds part of preservation breeding program | 100 |
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| Livestock health: |
| Lice: Costly hitchhikers | 101 |
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| The rabbit barn: |
| The merits of domestic rabbit meat | 102 |
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| The hog pen: |
| Water your hogs without using electricity | 104 |
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| Alternative livestock: |
| Raising exotic alpacas | 105 |
| The homestead donkey | 109 |
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| The goat barn: |
| For the love of goats | 109 |
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| Homestead finance: |
| My life as a diesel gypsy | 110 |
| Fiat paper money vs. real gold dollars | 110 |
| Growing old, death, and insurance | 112 |
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| Question of the month: |
| How can you make extra income on one acre? | 113 |
| Next month: What is your favorite winter activity? | 116 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 118 |
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| Trip to the landfill | 130 |
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