Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
   The "Leave Us Alone" coalition

Columns:

What if there's no doctor?
   Surviving a heart attack in the backwoods

Where I live:
   Walking and riding in the woods

Ayoob on Firearms:
   The backwoods hunter

Homesteading on the electronic frontier:
   Harvesting information from the Internet

Recipes:
   Make delicious meals all winter with stored vegetables and spices
   Venison deserves gourmet treatment
   Southern cooking that doesn't just whisle Dixie

Book Reviews:
   How to FInd Your Ideal Country Home
   Build Your Ark!
   In a Dark Wood
   River of Life, Channel of Death
   Guide to Wild Foods

Original Poems:
   John Earl Silveira
   Diane M. Calabrese

Contents

Harvest

• Those leftover fall tomatoes are a delicious bounty that should be put aside for the future
• It's easy to build your own milking stanchion
• Here are some tips on how to store apples for a long, long time
• Careful planning will make harvesting and preserving food a year-long process
• Make "recycled wine" from leftover fruit pulp
• Improve your poultry with selective breeding
• Here are some cucumber pickles to make at home
• Enrich your soil with cover crops
• Here are some tasty ways to use those end-of-the-season green tomatoes
• Make grape juice the easy way
• Keep fresh greens in your garden — even in the snow — by using row cover
• Cracking black walnuts can be "almost fun"
• Keep onions fresh...with panty hose
• Traditional ways of keeping your corn crop and seed corn are still very effective
• Use plastic to get a head start on corn in the fall
• Sheet composting is a work saver
• Squash seeds are a delicious, nutritious snack
• Leaf mold is another way to build your soil

Building

• Solve chinking woes with a morter-sawdust mix

Self Sufficiency

• For large quantity food dehydration try this homemade gem from the past
• Pectin — You can rely on the grocer or you can learn to make it yourself
• Apple-dapples — fun to make and even more fun to snack on
• Ten off-beat metal cleaning tricks
• Mugwort — From aiding digestion to relieving fatigue, this flavorful plant has many good uses

Country living

• Pressing cider and memories
• Orphaned kittens need special care
• A few strings attached

Homeschooling

• Based on years of person al experience, here are 10 good tips for homeschooling your children
• Teach your kids math with the banking game