Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    New World Order

Recipes:
    International ways with chicken
    Pie recipes

Original poems:
   Kyle Jarrard
   Cathleen Thomas
   Hal Meili
   John Silveira

Original drawing:
   Cindy Meyers

Profile:
    Ron Pruitt

Book Reviews
   Gardening by Mail
   Small-Scale Pig Farming
   Successful Small-Scale Farming
   Rodale's Book of Practical Formulas
   Basic Butchering of Livestock

Video reviews:
   Decks
   Installing Doors and Windows

Product reviews:
   Sun-Mar composting toilet
   Trace inverter

Contents

Current events

• Soviet nuclear weapons — what effect on our rights if terrorists get them

Building

• Foundations — from pole to slab
• Make a colonial shoulder yoke
• Build a shaving horse

Country life

• Moving "back to the land" and making it work
• Looking for love in rural places
• Here's a new way to remove a fish hook

Alternative energy

• Marrying solar thermal and photovoltaics to create a hot water system
• Midwest Renewable Energy Fair features solar house, electrics, dealers

Self sufficiency/Money/Guns

• Walking that last mile with a loved one — a guide to caring for your dead
• Four 1992 Preparedness Expos scheduled for 1992
• Understanding ammunition will make your working guns more useful
• Amateur radio — a sensible communication alternative for the self-reliant
• New rules for ham radio license
• Miles per gallon vs. miles per hour — things to consider when buying a car
• Tips to make your car go 150,000 miles
• Work at home as a paramedical examiner

Farm/Garden

• Using your stockman's eye to care for your livestock
• Finding, growing and eating Asian mustards

Health/Environment

• Backwoods Home Magazine laboratory water test offer
• The wolves of Mission: Wolf
• National Health Care — will it work in the U.S.?