Departments
Note from the publisher
Letters
Editorial:
 The “Leave Us Alone” coalition
Columns:
What if there’s no doctor?
Surviving a heart attack in the backwoods
Where I live:
Walking and riding in the woods
Ayoob on Firearms:
The backwoods hunter
Homesteading on the electronic frontier:
Harvesting information from the Internet
Recipes:
Make delicious meals all winter with stored vegetables and spices
Venison deserves gourmet treatment
Southern cooking that doesn’t just whisle Dixie
Book Reviews:
How to FInd Your Ideal Country Home
Build Your Ark!
In a Dark Wood
River of Life, Channel of Death
Guide to Wild Foods
Original Poems:
John Earl Silveira
Diane M. Calabrese
Contents
Harvest
- Those leftover fall tomatoes are a delicious bounty that should be put aside for the future
- It’s easy to build your own milking stanchion
- Here are some tips on how to store apples for a long, long time
- Careful planning will make harvesting and preserving food a year-long process
- Make “recycled wine” from leftover fruit pulp
- Improve your poultry with selective breeding
- Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home
- Enrich your soil with cover crops
- Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-the-season green tomatoes
- Make grape juice the easy way
- Keep fresh greens in your garden even in the snow by using row cover
- Cracking black walnuts can be “almost fun”
- Keep onions fresh…with panty hose
- Traditional ways of keeping your corn crop and seed corn are still very effective
- Use plastic to get a head start on corn in the fall
- Sheet composting is a work saver
- Squash seeds are a delicious, nutritious snack
- Leaf mold is another way to build your soil
Building
- Solve chinking woes with a morter-sawdust mix
Self Sufficiency
Country living
- Pressing cider and memories
- Orphaned kittens need special care
- A few strings attached
Homeschooling
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