Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    The beast is at the door again

Recipes:
    Chinese cooking
    Sun oven cookery

Original poems:
   Dorothy Strudwick
   John Silveira
   Kelly Van Ausdal

Just for kids:
    Sun-kabobs & solar sizzle

Contents

Independent energy

• For a truly independent energy system, your choices are solar, wind and water
• Don't discount a generator, especially a diesel generator, as your primary power source
• Independent energy runs Backwoods Home Magazine
• Small wind turbines are a viable alternative
• Designing for solar heating
• Mico-hydropower — a working example
• Here's a low-cost, low-tech refrigerator that really works
• The care of lead-acid batteries
• Build a 12-volt power plant from the junkyard
• Firewood — how and what to buy

Country living

• The great cow caper
• Lucky duck
• How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm — after they've seen the mall?
• The gosling that lived

Farm/Garden

• Raising fish in the farm pond

Americana/History

• Looking behind the Declaration of Independence