| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| Coming events | 30 |
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| Homestead water: |
| Homestead water procurement | 34 |
| A back-up water supply | 39 |
| Self-sufficient for how long? | 40 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Keeping electricity in its place | 42 |
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| A po' boy's hydraulic bench press | 44 |
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| Notes from the Northwoods: |
| The Manytracks solar oven | 50 |
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| The country kitchen: |
| One-pot meals from the garden | 55 |
| Authentic tomato salsa | 58 |
| Reader offers rabbit recipes | 59 |
| Make your own liqueurs at home | 60 |
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| The garden: |
| Growing Oriental eggplant | 60 |
| Catnip | 61 |
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| The home dairy: |
| The homestead milk supply: Safe or unsafe? | 66 |
| Corporate America versus the dairyman | 69 |
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| Homestead politics: |
| Feds eyeing your flocks & fields | 70 |
| How to write congressmen | 73 |
| Outlawed for "too few" pigs | 73 |
| Sample letters and phone calls | 74 |
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| The pig pen: |
| Raising your own backyard pig | 75 |
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| The homestead mule: |
| History of mules | 78 |
| A boy becomes a man - with a mule's help | 79 |
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| The homestead dog: |
| Flea remedies for your dog | 81 |
| Bring back the farm collie | 82 |
| Texas Terriers | 88 |
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| Livestock housing: |
| An unused silo cap | 84 |
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| Trapping: It ain't necessarily so | 86 |
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| Your homestead business: |
| Sensible business practices for the self-employed | 89 |
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| Kids on the homestead: |
| Homesteading with kids | 94 |
| Reflections on a homeschooled, homestead life | 100 |
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| How to escape from the city: Tips on relocating | 101 |
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| The wood carver: |
| Working wood safely | 102 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| California dream | 104 |
| Are conservation & communities history? | 105 |
| "Tightwad" grandma happy to embrace self-sufficiency | 106 |
| For this family, less is more, on their homestead | 107 |
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| Looking back: |
| Urban childhood during the Depression | 108 |
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| Homestead humor: |
| Homesteading terms | 110 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 111 |
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| After Chores: |
| The rewards of going to the shoe shop | 122 |
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