Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Recession and AIDS

Recipes:
    Good food for hard times

Original poems:
   John Silveira
   Linda Hutton

Profile:
    Michael Andy Darr

Magazine/Book Reviews
   How to be successful in the Antique Business
   Victorian Houseware, Kitchenware and Hardware
   USDA Agriculture Research Magazine
   Survivalist SIG Newsletter
   Understand Home Construction

Contents

Building

• Wow! Field-fabricated standing-seam metal roofing
• Heat your upstairs by cutting holes in the floor
• Straw bale houses — an alternative

Country life

• Marvels in small packages
• Greechie, the hummingbird
• Fire ants on the march in the U.S.
• Cooking with woodstoves
• Preparing yourself for springtime floods
• God willing and the creek don't rise
• Make a crazy quilt
• Teach your kids the fun, safe way to split kindling

Alternative energy

• Charging RV batteries with the sun

Self sufficiency/Money /Guns

• Now that you ahve your little slice of heaven, how to pay for it
• An overview of centerfire rifles
• Creating your own life at home without special tools
• Chop 'em, drop 'em & lop 'em...a rank beginner's guide to logging
• Getting more cash from your crafts
• Growing Christmas trees — a year-round part-time business
• Parakeets for cash
• Family works together at successful home-based business

Farm/Garden

• Seed starting the easy way
• The bonus of blackberries
• The all purpose power food — soybeans!
• Good farm management puts money in your pocket
• Kricket Krap for your garden

Health/Environment

• Carob — the chocolate alternative
• Backwoods Home Magazine's "uptown" laboratory water test
• Home remedies