Departments

Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
   Rewriting the Bill of Rights

Recipes:
   My best winter meals
   Healthy holiday baking

Original poems:
   John Silveira
   Jim Watters
   Kyle Jarrard

Book Reviews
   The Best Medical Care
   One Potato, Two Potato
   Tomatoes! 365 Healthy Recipes
   Uncommon Fruits
   Common-sense Pest Control
   Breads of New England
   Hydroponic Hot House
   Cookin’ with Home Storage

Profile:
   One woman’s self-sustaining grassland livestock farm

Just for kids:
   A short possum tail (tale?)

Contents

Building

• How to build an inexpensive cellar that works
• Moving houses — good bargains for backwoods living
• Rope as a tool — as versatile as ever
• The case against modular housing

Country life

• Life of the “prairie tenor”
• The Australian shepard — a dog with brains and loyalty
• Making a great rug from the rag bag
• Here’s a handy chart to help predict your local weather

Alternative energy

• Design calculations for overshot waterwheels

Self sufficiency/Money/Jobs

• Medical transcription — a recession proof career
• Moonlight and newspapers
• Selling chickens to an ethnic market

Guns

• Want the kids to learn shooting? Try Whittington!

Farm/Garden

• Self sufficiency and non-hybrid seeds

Americana

• Remembering the magic of mother’s kitchen
• Riving shingles for your roof the old fashioned way
• The Electoral College — how we elect the President

Crafts

• Wyoming Classics shows how to bead sweats and T’s