| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| Coming events | 34 |
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| The garden: |
| Botanical Latin for the plebeian reader | 36 |
| Grow your own sweet potatoes | 39 |
| Once-a-year U-pick pumpkin and autumn ornamental patch | 40 |
| Preserving your harvest with turn-of-the-century methods | 47 |
| Saving vegetable seeds | 50 |
| Composting with pallets | 52 |
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| Notes from the Northwoods: |
| Horseradish: It’s great with almost everything! | 42 |
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| Country kitchen: |
| Delicious meals from dehydrated foods | 54 |
| Read the instructions that came with your pressure cooker, or beware the ominous Red Rain! | 56 |
| A reader shares canning tips | 58 |
| Marinated cheese | 71 |
| Taking care of your game meat | 72 |
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| Question of the month: |
| Favorite canning recipes | 60 |
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| The henhouse: |
| Preschool project turns into chicken raising project for this family | 78 |
| Free-range your birds in this chicken tractor | 79 |
| Daily rounds | 82 |
| Raising turkeys on the homestead | 84 |
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| The apiary: |
| Working your bees | 86 |
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| The goat barn: |
| Goat-raising tips for all stages of experience | 87 |
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| The sheep shed: |
| Sometimes even the best fencing is no match for frightened animals | 90 |
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| The woodcarver: |
| Tramp art makes a comeback with carvers | 93 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| How much wind would you like with your sunshine? | 95 |
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| Alternative energy: |
| Solar with an attitude | 97 |
| It's impossible to insulate a refrigerator | 100 |
| Cold wether passive assist refrigeration | 101 |
| Tale of a 'new' washing machine | 102 |
| Building a water hole | 103 |
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| The machine shed: |
| Build a PTO power sprayer | 104 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| A homestead on Caney Creek | 107 |
| A complimentary pair of hobbies | 112 |
| Goats and sustainable farming give this homesteader purpose | 114 |
| How one woman's hobby became her life's work | 116 |
| It wasn't in the book | 117 |
| Homesteading community forming in Missouri | 117 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 119 |
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| Looking back: |
| Growing up in the Depression: The story continues | 110 |
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| After Chores: |
| After chores: | 130 |
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