Publisher, Dave Duffy ; senior editor, John Silviera ; managing editor, Jessie Denning ; editorial coordinator, Lisa Nourse ; associate editor, Rhoda Denning ; artist, Don Childers.-- title page verso.
Contents:
Issue number 169: Editor's note: A terrifying cougar encounter -- My view: Welcome to the other side -- Keeping homestead animals healthy -- Can we make a Tyrannosaurus rex from a chicken? -- Building a $3000 barn -- Eating tree tips -- Build a split rail fence -- Luxurious pumpkins -- Getting the jump on spring in the garden -- Ayoob on Firearms: Spring fatigue in firearms: myth or menace: -- A beginner's guide to pressure canning -- Solutions for common cherry tree problems -- The gee-whiz! page: Understanding and controlling dreams -- Make elderberry syrup for flu season -- Homemade lotion bars -- How to maintain your chimney -- Start a community swap -- The last word: Another shot at gun control. Issue number 170: Editor's note -- My view: Jury duty: The charge was rape -- Tire gardening: planting an orchard -- Successful backyard composting -- Build a composter -- Protect your homestead from black bear mischief -- A free, non-toxic, no scrub way to clean your wood stove windows -- Homemade nut and seed butters -- Installing a wood stove -- Ayoob on Firearms: The timeless lever-action rifle -- Make jerky from ground meat -- Making apple cider with a homemade press -- Make tortillas from scratch -- The MTHFR mutation and why it may matter to you -- The gee-whiz! page: Cats: why they rule our world -- Grow healthy pear trees -- Common chicken myths -- Root cellaring: without a root cellar -- Ask Jackie. Issue 171: Editor's note -- My view: Why we need the Second Amendment -- Build your own hoop house -- Fairy-tale homesteading -- Dry-stack stone construction -- Preserving plums -- Homemade milk products -- The wonderful world of axes -- Black caps: the wild black raspberries of the backwoods -- Ayoob on Firearms: Perspectives on spare guns -- Growing and using chamomile -- How to line dry your clothes -- In defense of the outhouse -- Finding, seasoning, and burning firewood -- 9 canning myths busted! -- A tale of a real country kitchen -- The gee-whiz! page: Coffee -- Cold process goat milk soap. Issue 172: Editor's note -- My view: Everyday marvels of the internet -- Building David's cabin, part one -- Introduction to water bath canning -- Sticks and stakes: Rustic homestead fencing -- Preserving food through fermentation -- Building a side business in the country -- Modify an E-Tool to make your own Combi-Tool -- Growing sugar beets and making "sugar" -- Delicious bean desserts -- Ayoob on Firearms: The classic bolt-action rifle -- Preserving apples -- A mountain man's guide: Boxwood stove cooking -- Ask Jackie. Issue 173: Editor's note: Preparedness and electronics -- My view: Preparedness planning as a game -- Building David's cabin, part two -- Preserve fresh eggs for winter -- Butchering and cooking a pig -- How to build and use a wire minnow trap -- Introduction to pressure canning -- Create a vernal pool -- Dehydrating food -- By hook or crook: A billhook is a handy homestead tool -- Ayoob on Firearms: Pinnacle of plinking: the pin shot -- Bob's basic breads for beginners, bachelors, barbarians, and backwoodsmen -- A seed selecting primer -- The irreverent joke page -- How to can chopped garlic -- Sew some simple "vintage" pillowcases -- Ask Jackie -- The Last Word: What does it mean to be on the political right? Issue number 174: Building David's cabin, part three -- Make a quick and easy tipi -- 8 reasons to raise rabbits on the homestead -- Fermenting chicken feed -- Freeze a holiday turkey to enjoy it all year long -- Urban homesteading -- Be self-reliant at any age -- Freezing foods -- Maintaining and troubleshooting refrigerators & freezers -- Butcher a chicken in 10 easy steps -- Ayoob on Firearms: Firearm prices and consumer economics today -- Teaching a 10-year-old to shoot -- Edible, medicinal roses -- Foraging with children.
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