Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
   Country Bumpkins

Columns:

Ayoob on firearms:
   Kids, values and "junior shooting"

Where I live:
   Following in the footsteps of the Mormon pioneers

Recipes:
   From honey apple crisp to French tarts, tasty apple treats are just right for fall
   Enjoy America's sugarplum — the persimmon
   Fish — this gourmet food is fun to catch, relatively easy to cook and healthy to eat

Original Poems:
   John Silveira
   Melissa Sullivan

Contents

Making a living

• Let your imagination guide you to making money in the country

Building/Tools

• You can cut your costs in half by installing a chain link fence yourself
• Make a sidewalk garden bench

Farm/Garden

• Save your harvest leftovers with a vegetable stew mix

Crafts

• Making paper at home is a fascinating process

Self sufficiency

• Be prepared for "after the accident happens"
• Acorns are not just squirrel food
• You could furnish an entire homestead at Lehman's "non-electric" hardware store
• You can become a hardcore forager
• Make a fully functional cold storage pit/mound and enjoy your garden's production all winter
• Seven secrets of dutch oven cooking
• Comfrey is a powerful healing herb

Computer nerd

• The saga of the brand name computer and why you should buy a "Clone"

Country living

• Inexpensive retired Russian military rifles can be the ideal backwoods meat guns