| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| Coming events | 27 |
| |
| Notes from the Northwoods: |
| Getting ready—or simply living? | 28 |
| |
| Achieving food independence: Part II | 30 |
| Food independence takes on new meaning for this urban Florida couple | 38 |
| |
| Life on the sunny side: |
| Unfolding the complexity of wind towers | 42 |
| |
| Alternative energy: |
| Countryside re-installs an off-grid system | 45 |
| |
| Homestead construction: |
| Build your own solar shower for pennies | 48 |
| |
| Livestock housing: |
| How to build your own small animal cages | 51 |
| |
| Homestead livestock: |
| The loss of livestock diversity | 53 |
| |
| The cow barn: |
| Love my Dutch Belted! | 55 |
| |
| The homestead horse: |
| What to look for in a usin' horse | 57 |
| |
| The goat barn: |
| How a 4-H project became a full-time family business | 58 |
| |
| The poultry yard: |
| Weeders? Not these geese | 61 |
| |
| The garden: |
| An abundance of squash | 62 |
| Consider a hydroponic garden as a supplemental growing method | 64 |
| Unique & unusual plants for your home and garden | 66 |
| |
| The homestead kitchen: |
| How to choose a grain mill | 68 |
| Fall favorites: Cranberries and pumpkins | 70 |
| |
| Your homestead business: |
| Sensible ideas for selling your home craft product | 71 |
| |
| The wood shed: |
| Build a kindling bundler | 74 |
| |
| Homestead building: |
| Rob Roy responds to the ongoing "cordwood discussion" | 76 |
| |
| Question of the Month: |
| Welcome to our homestead! | 78 |
| |
| Recycling on the homestead: |
| There are plastics and there are bioplastics - How much do you know? | 86 |
| |
| NAIS update: |
| Small farm owners meet NAIS officials in Kansas City | 90 |
| |
| Country neighbors: |
| Problems with the neighbors | 99 |
| The sunny side of rural life | 100 |
| Tuffy the calf | 102 |
| |
| The wood carver: |
| Native Alaskan art | 103 |
| |
| Poor Will's Almanack | 104 |
| |
| After chores: |
| The great barnyard showdown | 114 |
| |
