| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
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| Don't forget your survival kit! | 30 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Choosing the right off-grid inverter | 33 |
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| Feature article: |
| Livestock on the homestead | 36 |
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| Homestead livestock: |
| Innovative milker works for a variety of livestock | 44 |
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| The homestead horse: |
| Minerals for your horse: Striking a balance | 46 |
| Why do people ride astride? To preserve the tradition! | 47 |
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| The henhouse: |
| The chicken and the egg | 50 |
| Babying your chicks | 51 |
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| Homestead politics: |
| The real impacts of the National Identification System | 52 |
| Government beef | 55 |
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| Choosing the right hunting knife | 57 |
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| The garden: |
| Earth's most user-friendly composter: Used tires | 60 |
| An organic leap to a compost heap | 63 |
| Make your own compost barrel | 65 |
| Grow your own greens (and cease worrying about the stuff in plastic) | 66 |
| Using your chestnuts (with recipes from France and Italy) | 68 |
| The art of ordering garden seeds | 69 |
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| The homestead kitchen: |
| The healthy & tantalizing pomegranate | 71 |
| All about cinnamon | 75 |
| You, too, can save up to 50% on your grocery bill | 77 |
| Skin care tips | 78 |
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| Your homestead business: |
| It takes time to establish a home business | 79 |
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| Question of the month: |
| Livestock on our homesteads | 82 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| The long & winding road | 94 |
| Oregon bound! | 98 |
| Memoirs of a flatlander | 102 |
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| The wood carver: |
| Home from Alaska | 106 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 107 |
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| 2006 Countryside Index, Vol. 90, Nos. 1-6 | 120 |
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| After chores: |
| "What if..." | 122 |
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