Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Flushing toilets with other people's money

Original poems:
   John Earl Silveira

Just for kids:
    Some good clean fun!

Recipes:
    Muffin Magic
    Venison recipes

Contents

Self sufficiency/Money

• Drying food — low cost, easy way to preserve your harvest
• Gathering low cost firewood
• Protect your home and family from fire
• Ostriches and emus — backwoods bonanza or feathered pyramid?
• Small engine maintenance for women
• Getting sugar from trees

Farm/Garden

• Winter protection and planting of fruit trees
• Fall pumpkins and squash

Country life

• Preparing for snow-ins
• Cabin fever

Independent energy

• Wind power from the past
• Wind power in the present
• Thermal mass has its place, but R value is the more efficient

Americana

• Thanksgiving — a celebration of freedom and harvest

Building/Tools

• Design and build a barn