| Departments: |
| Country conversation | 10 |
| Coming events | 27 |
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| Maverick: An interview with Bud Kerr | 28 |
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| Your homestead business: |
| Efficiency vs. quality | 32 |
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| Setting goals for your homestead | 35 |
| We're the new hippies | 36 |
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| The sheep shed: |
| How to shear a sheep! | 38 |
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| The poultry shed: |
| Raising ducks and geese on pasture | 44 |
| The goose project | 45 |
| Geese and ganders are very much alike | 46 |
| Consider raising ducks for eggs | 47 |
| Use care when feeding ducks chicken feed | 48 |
| Antibiotics in feed increases resistance to food poisoning cure | 48 |
| Help your flock cope with cold weather | 49 |
| Management and genetics determine span of lay | 50 |
| Gear flock size to production needs | 50 |
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| Book review: |
| Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds | 51 |
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| The horse barn: |
| ALBC works with owners to conserve endangered Marsh Tacky horse | 52 |
| The Caspian horse | 54 |
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| Livestock health: |
| Eye inflammation in livestock can be caused by burrs | 56 |
| Reduce losses when feeding hay | 58 |
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| The goat barn: |
| Goats and trees aren't a good mix | 59 |
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| Reducing livestock odors | 60 |
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| The beehive: |
| How bees make honey. | 61 |
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| Alternative building: |
| Building with straw was a wise choice | 66 |
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| Life on the sunny side: |
| Is homegrown wind power right for you? | 67 |
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| Baker Creek: A seed house changing the course of history | 74 |
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| The garden: |
| Growing indoors | 78 |
| Colorado (no frills) papaya greenhouse | 78 |
| Hot pepper spray deters squirrels | 80 |
| Extend your growing season with a homemade hoop house | 81 |
| Extend your growing season with a cold frame | 85 |
| Battles with deer | 87 |
| The compost corral | 88 |
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| The homestead kitchen: |
| What's wrong with my cheese? | 89 |
| Have egg-stra eggs? | 90 |
| Memories of fried apple pies | 91 |
| Dates—the world's most complete food | 9 |
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| Homestead politics: |
| NAIS Commentary: Spreading the word through children | 101 |
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| Homestead crafts: |
| Knit a pair of slippers | 101 |
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| Question of the month: |
| The scoop on your favorite reads | 105 |
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| Country neighbors: |
| Cutting wood...with supervision | 110 |
| Don't call us on Thursdays | 112 |
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| Poor Will's Almanack | 114 |
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| 2007 Countryside Index | 122 |
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| Breeder's Directory | 124 |
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| Countryside Classifieds | 126 |
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| After chores: |
| Do animals go to heaven? | 130 |
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