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Volume 92 Number 4

July/August, 2008


What's happening this month
on your Countryside homestead...
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Departments:
Country conversation8
 
Special section:
Getting started on your homestead: Advice for beginners27
 
Life on the sunny side:
Using wind energy for direct water heating36
 
Alternative building:
Building a straw bale home—at the age of 1938
They built a home in a hurry—with earthbags40
 
The garden:
The integrated homestead: Part II: Tools42
Lasagna gardening begins with layers49
It's high time to revive the working family garden51
 
The homestead kitchen:
Dry it. You'll like it!54
Canning in the great outdoors59
Got zucchini? So do all your neighbors!62
Feeding a family for under $300 a month?63
Vegetarian volcanoes for special occasions64
 
The henhouse:
Emergency kit for the coop67
 
The livestock barn:
Managing mastitis69
A word about bulls71
A lesson in halter breaking calves73
Environmentally friendly fly trap74
 
The apiary:
Sustainable and bee-friendly beekeeping80
 
The homestead dog:
English Shepherds are great homestead dogs84
 
The goat barn:
Goats are affected by nasal bot larvae85
Caprine terminology85
 
Your homestead business:
Wholesale vs. retail: Part II: Wholesale 86
 
Homestead finance:
Having a cash reserve isn't a luxury, it's a necessity!88
 
Question of the month:
What have you learned from movies or tv?89
 
Country neighbors:
A new baby (21 years after the last one), and a new life93
What grows in the wild stays in the wild 94
Rural women business owners lead the rural rennaissance96
 
The hapless homesteader:
Self-sufficiency when it really matters98
 
Poor Will's Almanack100
 
After chores:
Home is where the heart is114
Aunt Myrtle's mistake114
 
  




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