Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Self reliance — the key to happiness

Book Review:
   Convert It

Profile:
    Mick Sagrillo, Wizard of Wind

Recipes:
    Three great bread recipes
    Quick & easy veggie food
    Making your own sourdough yeast

Original poems:
   John Silveira

Contents

Building/Tools/Housing

• Determined woman builds distinctive verticle log studio
• Learn the basics of wall framing
• Build a fieldstone chimney
• Building your own home: Part III
• Build an earth-sheltered log cabin
• How to build a low-cost log lifter

Country living

• Good-bye old friend
• Moon over Bogus Brook
• Going Home

Self sufficiency/Food/Money

• Five simple things that make our life easier
• Choosing and using a wood cookstove
• Health care begins at home
• Start a home-based food business
• Handguns are useful tools for the homesteader
• Trading your city house for a homestead — a taxing move?
• Make a lifeline before you need it

Farm/Garden

• How to care for and feed the family pond
• Raising water buffalo — are they better than cattle?