Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    The politics of tragedy

Think of it this way

Commentary
   The unfairness of property taxes

Reviews
   The Morning Hill Cookbook
   The FIJA Activist

Recipes:
    Make herbal wines
    Enjoy zucchini all year
    Mediterranean food — healthful home cooking at its best
    Luchbox cookies
    Zucchini milk
   How about a delicious thisle salad?

Just for kids:
    Life in the forest

Original poems:
   Annie Duffy
   Meaghan Silveira

Contents

Building/Tools/Housing

• Need a privy? Here's the right way to build one
• Build a cool pool for a refreshing price
• Here's a new idea for a burn barrel

Self Sufficiency

• Making teas from wild plants and herbs
• From emergency shower to backpack friend, the garden sprayer is a real versatile tool
• Here's how Old Italy and I teamed up to make a really neat & useful non-electric pasta machine
• Buy prescription drugs cheaply and without a prescription
• Create your own emergency water supply
• You can turn dumpster-diving into an urban treasure hunt
• How to make your own dressings and bandages
• Homemade soap — it's easy to make, high in quality and you can even make a living with it
• Start a home-based herb business
• Troubleshoot your own PC

Country living

• Try our country clichés quiz
• If it's personality you like, farm animals have a lot

Farm/Garden

• Freeze that sweet corn and enjoy it all year long
• Grow your own bay tree

Firearms

• Effective rounds for the backwoods

Crafts

• Make a quillow

Americana/History

• Presidential Wives, Part 3