Description

This issue features:

Self-reliance

• 10 traits for better living by Claire Wolfe
• Everfree Farm’s new coop by Annie Tuttle
• The homesteader’s toolbox by R.E. Rawlinson
• Air power superiority by Gary Lewis
• Economizing on laundry by David Olsen
• Tanning snakeskins by Frank H. Knebel
• Make your own froe & split your own shakes by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
• Ebola: Should we be worried? by John Silveira
• Survival infection control by Joe Alton, M.D.

Building

• Build a compost tumbler by Joe Mooney

Alternative energy

• Solar power on a low budget by Joel Simon

Farm and garden

• Raise pigs on pasture by Samantha Biggers
• Growing your own hay by Jackie Clay-Atkinson

Food and recipes

• Emergency food storage by Dan Furtney
• The big, wonderful world of rice by Linda Gabris
• Make sourdough with wild yeast by Leah Leach

Americana

• Barns: The centerpieces of farm life by Tom Kovach