| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
| Coming events | 28 |
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| Alternative housing: |
| A log cabin adventure | 30 |
| Mortgage vs. home improvement loan | 38 |
| The quest for homestead land | 41 |
| A tree house yurt | 43 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Stand-alone solar water pumping | 45 |
| Countryside's wind turbine replacement update | 47 |
| Start your solar energy system on a manageable level | 48 |
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| The garden: |
| The secrets to growing delectable sweet corn | 50 |
| High Desert gardening: What we do now for spring | 53 |
| High Desert gardening in Colorado | 54 |
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| Question of the month: |
| Growing fruit on your homestead | 56 |
| Tending fruit trees | 57 |
| Growing fruit on a northern homestead | 58 |
| Insects love her "banana smoothies" | 60 |
| Fruit butters are a great way to preserve your sweet harvest | 60 |
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| Put fresh greens on your table—for free! | 61 |
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| The apiary: |
| Getting started with bees | 62 |
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| Make a spill-proof livestock waterer that delays freezing | 66 |
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| The goat barn: |
| Contain your kids with this handy disbudding box | 68 |
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| The rabbitry: |
| Raising rabbits step-by-step | 69 |
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| The henhouse: |
| Pulllus fabula | 71 |
| Let this be the year you start raising chickens! | 74 |
| Quail provide a "change of pace" for poultry owners | 76 |
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| Which breed of cattle is best? That depends... | 80 |
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| The pig pen: |
| History of the Red Wattle hog | 81 |
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| The sheep shed: |
| Safe shepherding | 83 |
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| Animal owner's options when faced with mandatory or compulsory aspects of NAIS | 87 |
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| The country kitchen: |
| A quarter-century of restoring old wagons | 89 |
| No need to knead bread | 92 |
| Chicken Fettuccine | 92 |
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| All around the homestead: |
| Tips from an urban homesteader | 93 |
| Make your own laundry soap | 96 |
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| The woodlot: |
| Dutch's homemade firewood splitter | 102 |
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| New product: |
| Inexpensive, portable sawmill now available | 104 |
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| The woodcarver: |
| Encouragement for beginning woodcarvers | 105 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| Memories of Chocolate Gravy and Cat Head Biscuits | 108 |
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| Looking back: |
| Lessons from the Great Depression | 110 |
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| Poor Will's Countryside Almanack | 116 |
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| After chores: |
| The salesman and the magic pumpkin | 130 |
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