Issue #158: March/April 2016

Description

This issue features:

Self-reliance

• Pump water for free by Kai Moessle
• Wooden posts that last by Robert Van Putten
• Cut your electric bill in half by Kathryn Wingrove

Farm and garden

• Prevent foodborne illness with safe gardening methods by Donna Insco
• Testing hay, straw, and compost for toxic herbicides by Sylvia Gist
• Growing beans by Jackie Clay-Atkinson
• Grow gourmet mushrooms by Jereme Zimmerman
• Keeping records for livestock by Donna Insco
• Cole crops by Sylvia Gist
• Starting a roadside farm stand by John Murray

Food and recipes

• Texas Fireballs by Randy Young
• Make cheese in a crockpot by Robyn Dolan
• Hearty, humble potatoes by Linda Gabris

Americana

• The Orphan Trains by John Dinan

Building

• The off-grid cabin project, part 4 by Charles Sanders
• Turning a $10,000 house into a home, part 4 by Claire Wolfe