| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 8 |
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| Feature articles: |
| Choosing a firearm for the homestead | 28 |
| Homemade Bluegrass music | 30 |
| Make a Native American Love Flute | 32 |
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| The wood carver: |
| Some random thoughts by an old wood carver | 38 |
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| The henhouse: |
| Chickens go urban | 39 |
| Keep pests out of your coop with "rotating" buckets | 41 |
| Incubating in a food dehydrator | 41 |
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| The beehive: |
| Your first year with bees: Now is the time to plan for next year | 42 |
| Why the bees are dying | 45 |
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| The homestead dog: |
| The Seppala Siberian Sled Dog | 47 |
| Introduction to the Treeing Feist | 48 |
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| The homestead horse: |
| Draft horses—as useful today as ever | 50 |
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| Building a goat shed or chicken coop for the cost of nails! | 53 |
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| The cow barn: |
| Raising healthy calves | 59 |
| Miniature Jerseys: It was love at first sight | 61 |
| A fluke revolutionized milking time: It's a "miracle cream" | 63 |
| Selecting hay for cattle | 64 |
| Feeding & storing hay | 66 |
| Build an inexpensive hay shed | 68 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Battery options for your off-grid home | 71 |
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| Alternative energy: |
| Hillbilly deluxe solar trailer | 73 |
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| Homestead building: |
| We're attached to our greenhouse | 75 |
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| The garden: |
| How I built my own grow light stand for less than $20 | 78 |
| Try kohlrabi for a unique treat | 79 |
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| The homestead kitchen: |
| Heat & eat: Get double-duty from your woodstove | 80 |
| Burghul—the noblest food achieved by wheat | 85 |
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| Your homestead business: |
| Your time is worth something: Pricing your products in a home craft business | 88 |
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| Question of the month: |
| What would you do differently? | 92 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| Starting from scratch | 103 |
| Alone in the Canadian wilderness—at 116 years old | 104 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 106 |
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| Poor Will's Countryside Almanack | 122 |
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