After chores

• The greater gift
• The flying squirrel

All around the homestead

• Equipping the “ideal” homestead in the 21st century
• How we use time determines what our lives are, what we are
• It takes time to acquire tools and experience
• Time saving devices
• How many ways can you save time?
• Are you depriving your kids?
• Cold-stirred, no-cook lye soap
• Make a smoker from a cardboard box
• Flat-free tires
• Learning is saving
• They don’t make them like they used to
• My homesteading blunders
• Why are you interested in homesteading?
• How things were done in the 1800′s

Your homestead business

• Selecting and starting your ideal home business
• Thinking about a homestead enterprise?
• Do you really want to go into business for yourself?
• Marketing your crafts
• Spousal support in the home craft business
• It takes time to establish a home business
• Your time is worth something: Pricing your products in a home craft business
• Wholesale vs. retail, Part I: Retail
• Time for a crafty harvest
• A farm store can work for you
• New model for supermarket beef on a Georgia Serengeti

Alternative energy

• Practical solar power
• Forecast for alternative energy: Sunny, and exciting!
• Solar, wind and steam: A cost comparison
• Heating with wood
• Heat with peat moss
• A silent killer: Carbon monoxide
• Renewable system payback
• Free hot water
• There’s a renewable energy system for you
• Site specific system designs
• 25 years off-grid, a retrospective
• Getting started with solar power
• Living off the grid: A wife’s perspective
• Piecing together a spanking new $600 solar-electric system
• Purchasing and using a masonry stove
• Selling the sun: Solar and wind options for grid-tied homes
• Series and parallel wiring
• Home heating from the good Earth
• Unfolding the complexity of wind towers
• Choosing the right off-grid inverter
• Stand-alone solar water pumping
• Calculating your daily solar energy harvest
• Midwest couple doubles their diesel dollars
• Battery options for your off-grid home
• Is homegrown wind power right for you?
• SIPping the good life – Structural Insulated Panels prove a good match for off-grid living
• Solar hot water, anyone? System options for every climate
• Using wind energy for direct water heating
• Cashing in on sunlight’s changeable nature. Efficient windows and thermal mass
• Electricity from wood? An old technology with a new twist
• Sizing a solar-electric system for worry-free off-grid living
• Install solar and wind electricity for a secure and sustainable future
• Portable generators: When the power goes out, you don’t have to worry
• Calling for backup: Standby generators
• Calling for backup: Part II: Battery-based backup power systems
• Going solar in a small way: Pint-sized inverters
• A Colorado family’s 18-year off-grid odyssey
• Real life in the off-grid dream
• Free hot water from your wood cookstove
• The real cost of going off-grid
• Cutting amps by ramping volts
• Timely tax breaks for energy efficiency
• Big results from a little off-grid welding shop
• Two solar hot-water systems you can (probably) build yourself
• Venturing out of the backwoods: Can your off-grid home survive without you?
• Brewing up some wind power: Axial-flux and other DIY wind turbines
• Our favorite bun warmer
• Living off the grid: Can you hack it?

Homestead housing

• A place to heal
• Living in the round: Life in a yurt
• Squatter nation

Homestead Construction

• Energy efficient homes
• Frequently asked questions about cordwood masonry
• Building for free with “alternative” natural material
• Construct a straw bale greenhouse
• Designing your ideal homestead
• A backyard lean-to
• Build a wood-burning cookstove from a steel barrel
• Build your own solar shower for pennies
• Build it with stone…build it for free!
• Build a homestead root cellar and smoker
• Hoard’s bike cart

The Homestead kitchen

• Learning to cook on a woodstove
• The Fab Four: How to survive on wheat, dry milk, honey and salt
• Cheese: A natural way to preserve your milk
• Solar food drying
• How To Make Vinegar
• Doc Salsbury makes sourdough
• Alternate heat sources for food dehydration
• No-frills oven-drying of fruits and vegetables
• Slow food—A Celebration of Life
• Baked beans and stews
• The versatile meat grinder
• Fall butchering advice & reminders
• The best butcherin’ recipes
• There’s yeast in them there hills
• Mead: Gift of the gods
• Delightful eggplant dishes from Eastern lands
• It’s easy to make your own yogurt
• Sourdough bread variations
• Africa’s delicious gift to the world
• Cast iron in the country kitchen
• Why eat whole foods?
• Here’s a tasty, healthful, inexpensive snack
• Make goat milk mozzarella & Make your own rennet
• Try some goat milk ice cream
• Stocking your emergency food pantry
• Read the instructions that came with your pressure cooker, or beware the ominous Red Rain!
• Taking care of your game meat
• Grow your own stir-fry
• Cider making: A pressing concern
• The whole wheat experience
• Cabbage: One of the most nutritious vegetables
• Cranberries: A healthy and versatile fruit
• Fill your pantry with help from Mother Nature
• Breakfast & beyond: Reinventing the egg
• Dry it. You’ll like it!
• A chicken in every pot
• Spinach: The prince of vegetables
• Cooking common fish
• Money saving tips from More Money Than Month
• Bread baking basics
• Warm up with horseradish this winter
• Make fois gras at home humanely and inexpensively
• Snow food is snow terrific
• Bringing Thanksgiving back to the farm
• All or nothing = nothing
• In a class of its own: Food and the Codex
• Can it already
• Menu planning & a clean kitchen
• Real “whole” whole wheat bread
• Muffin basics
• Whole wheat bread recipe: A variation
• Bake fresh-ground whole meal potato bread
• Gluten, dairy, soy, & sugar-free recipes
• Yogurt: An easy, inexpensive (and yummy) way to preserve your excess milk
• Living off milk abundance
• Debbie’s bread recipe

Country neighbors

• “Grow as you go”
• Homesteading in Malawi, the warm heart of Africa

Homestead crafts

• Design your own insulating window quilts
• A second life for bluejeans
• Rags to rugs

Crops & soils

• The soul of soil
• How to make compost
• Composting at home
• No-till, permanent bed farming
• Evaluating hay quality
• Weather and plant maturity affect hay quality
• Out to pasture: Nutrition more important than rotation
• Soil health

Fences

• On guard: Protecting the homestead herd with electric fencing
• Fences for livestock
• User-friendly gates: Tips for quick fixes
• The real meaning of stick-building
• Five Fencing mistakes you don’t want to make

Homestead finances

• Do your research before buying your homestead
• How to thrive on half your income
• How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 and lived to tell about it!
• Coping with today’s economy
• Economics for homesteaders

Homestead firearms

• Is it time you started reloading your own ammo?

 

The garden

• How to buy a good garden tool
• How to grow mushrooms on a log
• Grow herbs in winter
• Can your garden provide homestead income?
• The beauty and bounty of basil
• Scarecrows that actually work
• Our greenhouse refuge
• Germination and transplant tips for vigorous plants
• The charm of chives
• Animal gardening
• The beauty of scythes
• Okra: Useful and attractive
• Feed your trees
• Strawberry delight
• This is not your Daddy’s okra! Big okra with big taste
• Kale in the fall garden
• Make a cold frame from your scrap pile
• Botanical Latin for the plebeian reader
• Preserving your harvest with turn-of-the-century methods
• The gardening game. Do you know where your seeds come from?
• Growing organic strawberries
• What is intensive planting? How does it work?
• An abundance of squash
• Earth’s most user-friendly composter: Used tires
• The secrets to growing delectable sweet corn
• The joys and challenges of growing herbs
• Try kohlrabi for a unique treat
• Extend your growing season with a cold frame
• Row covers extend the garden season
• Let’s get planting: Tips for starting your seeds off right
• Fruit trees: History’s movers & shakers
• It’s high time to revive the working family garden
• Autumn frost protection for your garden
• Mulch ado about nothing
• The $2 garden
• Get an early start in your garden
• K.I.S.S. your compost
• Growing fruit without sprays
• Gardening on a dime
• Spring gardening in the greenhouse
• Strawberry boxes
• Onions for food, flavor & fun
• Gardening is easier with “tables & tanks”
• Bridge over troubling teethmarks
• Growing apples in cold regions
• Ground squirrel eliminator
• Saving seeds
• The Victory Hoe

The Greenhorn’s Guide to Homesteading

• This land is your land; this land is our land
• Planning your homestead
• Location, location, location!

Homestead health

• Avian flu de-mystified

Homestead household hints

• Clean your home with homemade products

Homestead landscape

• Finding something deer won’t eat
• Soil-borne pathogens
• Herbicide use and its unintended consequences

Homestead livestock Take a tip from Nature: Farm wild Livestock on the homestead Donkeys on the homestead On the loose at the 15th Annual Wisconsin Grazing Conference The importance of biodiversity in livestock production 15th Annual Wisconsin Grazing Conference, Part III Eye inflammation in livestock can be caused by burrs Managing mastitis Off-the-grid alpaca farm Q Fever: A disease we definitely don’t need The apiary Getting started with bees Housing and feeding your new packaged bees Keep your bees healthy Your first year with bees: Now is the time to plan for next year Fun with mason bees The cow barn Pasture and cattle: Some tips for beginners Love my Dutch Belted! Selecting cattle for your small farm Malpresentations & manipulations Watering your herd in winter Hardware in cattle Prevent coccidiosis in calves Tips on using an esophageal feeder or nasogastric tube The lady wants a cow Milking your own cow Trouble with twins Marketing grass-fed beef Preparing your homestead herd for winter Essential remedies for the dairy barn There’s nothing magical about cow warts What is a crossbreed or a composite Feeds & feeding In praise of the lowly corn cob Build a high protein dispenser and feed your chickens for free! The goat barn Why Oberhasli Swiss Start your own meat goat herd True success comes with planning Small-scale milking machines Contain your kids with this handy disbudding box Goats are affected by nasal bot larvae All goats need some basic care Selecting a dairy goat Raising organically certified dairy goats Concrete hoof trimming The horse barn Attending the newborn foal Horses I have known – There’s a breed out there for everyone Draft horses—as useful today as ever West Nile Virus in horses Miniature horses: Caring for the ideal hobby horse The ten most commonly asked farrier questions The pig pen Raise a pig in your backyard Cold weather planning for pigs Living high on half the hog Water your hogs without using electricity Raising your own backyard pig Harvesting the homestead hog The (long) weekend pig project Gloucestershire Old Spots Homestead poultry Guineas for tick control Build your own small-scale chicken plucker Rearrange your chicken yard for fresh grazing Raising ducks and geese on pasture Use care when feeding ducks chicken feed Homestead poultry butchering Chicken feed and pig slop options Breeding meat chickens The rabbitry Fundamental principles of rabbit feeding Rabbit raising from a Pakistani view The art of palpation Hooked on Dutch: Give this delightful old breed a try Reflections of a rabbit raiser Overcoming the “cute factor” Raise rabbits for meat: They’re quieter than chickens The sheep shed What’s a geep? Milking sheep offer a new small farm alternative California Variegated Mutant sheep More Resources Backyard Poultry Magazine Dairy Goat Journal Magazine

In the wild

• The brown recluse spider
• Milkweed: A truly remarkable wild vegetable
• Sumac: The wild lemonade berry
• Cooking over the campfire
• Living on the wild side
• Drink nature-ally
• Wild onions—punchy, pungent, perfect
• The pronghorn: Back from the edge of oblivion
• Identifying and harvesting wild plants
• Basswood: The ultimate wild salad plant
• Defending “ugly” fish
• Wild parsnip: It’s like raiding a garden, but better
• Wild things

Looking back

• The “antique” value of prudence and the psychology of economics
• Where the money went
• Discovering our roots: How the 1920s and ’30s shaped modern homesteading
• Food and the fast track

Notes from the Northwoods

• Our flexible, movable kitchen
• Eating out of your garden
• Homestead wine
• Build a homestead one-log hauler
• Rhubarb: A special plant
• Rise to a new height—the workshop mini-bench
• Grapes in the north
• Horseradish: It’s great with almost everything!
• The Manytracks solar oven
• Building and using a midwest solar food dryer
• From cucumber to pickle
• Start spring in the fall

Homestead politics

• Welcome to Anathoth
• Food security is a real issue
• The “National Animal Identification System”: A new threat to rural freedom?
• National Livestock Identification System (updates)
• The real impacts of the National Identification System
• Maverick: An interview with Bud Kerr
• The scene of the crime: Could raw milk get you in hot water?
• Chicken crimes
• American panopticon

Self-reliance/Survival

• The Great Ice Storm of ’98
• In Michigan’s northwoods, they’re always prepared
• How to purify water in an emergency
• Lost in the wilderness! Tips to help you emerge safely
• A simple hand-warming heater you can make yourself
• Water: The most important preparedness item

Homestead simplicity

• Living deliberately: How to approach simplification
• Homestead security equals free-range chickens, a good dog, and Jerusalem artichokes

Homestead skills

• Make a rope
• Welding for anyone

The smithy

• Make an e-z log poker
• E-z blacksmithing coal forge

Voices

• Whatever happened to the Food Safety Modernization Act?

Homestead water

• How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off
• Conservation tips for everyone
• Winterkill prevention on ponds and lakes
• Hydraulic ram pump how-to
• A 12-volt “walking” water system
• Homestead water procurement
• But the levee was dry: The truth about the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007
• Build a small pond in your backyard
• Once a pond a time
• Build a homestead pond
• Using grey water in the garden
• “Water rings” make watering a snap

The woodlot

• Build a firewood holder
• Aid to dependent woodland owners

The homestead workshop

• Build a redwood hot tub for under $300
• Make a homemade boot scraper