Contents

Building a home

• "What if" planning makes a house expansion easier

Alternate energy

• Editorial — "A war that shouldn't be"
• Using salvaged materials to build a thermosiphon solar hot water system
• Jack Stewart knows solar
• Tips that will help if you are returning to wood heat
• Wind generator Questions and Answers
• How to keep the China Diesel purring like a kitten
• Aluminum-air battery gives electrics 750-mile range

Historical

• Today the world runs on oil; yesterday empires rose and fell over salt
• Pioneer women on the trail west

Country living/Crafts/Cooking

• How we keep humming along on the homestead
• A short course in cutting hair
• Backwoods Home Recipes
• Autumn delights
• Drying meat
• For food production, personality and bug-eating, try chickens
• Poison hemlock! — Don't get this deadly plant confused with others
• A hot Kansan yearns for winter
• Just for Kids — Apples, apples everywhere
• The Great Composting Toilet Adventure