Letters

Editorials:
    Beyond Iraq
   Cops too powerful

Recipes:
    Backwoods Home recipes
    Country Breakfasts
   Making Bread

Original Poems and songs
   Doc Hall
   Cathleen Thomsen
   John Silveira
   J.C. Watson

Original drawings:
   Noconi
   Cindy Meyers

Magazine and book Reviews
   Photovolaic News
   Wildfire
   American Survival Guide
   Backyard Livestock
   Grandma's Recipes
   Shelter
   Home School Source Book
   Home Chiropractic Book

Contents

Building

• Build a log house from scratch
• Sawmills: a firm foundation to homesteading
• Semi-underground, solar house has ideas worth crowing about
• Sound construction advice for the most important part of earth-set dwelling
• How to design and build a water system for your backwoods home

Alternative Energy

• New fluorescent bulbs last 13 times longer, use ¼ the electricity
• How to build a safe, effective wood-fired hot water heater
• Copper Cricket — no bugs in this solar hot water heater
• Wind generator questions and answers
• New Fuel cell may make hydrogen a practical fuel for electric vehicles
• Aluminum-air battery gives electric vehicles 750-mile range

Country living/Cooking/Family

• Home-made bread...it's good even when it turns out bad
• Kids "Funny Drawing" Contest
• Just for kids — a musical houseguest
• Homeschooling children — a former teacher's view of how well it works
• A practical survival strategy in the event of catastrophe
• A horse named Lady
• Protecting your home against the Wildfire Dragon

Farm/Garden

• The basics of backyard beekeeping
• It's not to late to start your garden
• The magic of mulch
• Overlooked garden delicacies
• How to harvest and dry herbs
• How to raise the best pork you have ever tasted

Health/Environment

• How to make homemade yogurt
• Aloe Vera — the magic plant

Crafts

• Matching sneakers and tee's