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Cover 27

Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
Self reliance — the key to happiness

Book Review:
Convert It

Profile:
Mick Sagrillo, Wizard of Wind

Recipes:
Three great bread recipes
Quick & easy veggie food
Making your own sourdough yeast

Original poems:
John Silveira

 

Contents

Building/Tools/Housing

Country living

Self sufficiency/Food/Money

  • Five simple things that make our life easier
  • Choosing and using a wood cookstove
  • Health care begins at home
  • Start a home-based food business
  • Handguns are useful tools for the homesteader
  • Trading your city house for a homestead — a taxing move?
  • Make a lifeline before you need it

Farm/Garden

  • How to care for and feed the family pond
  • Raising water buffalo — are they better than cattle?