Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Forget conspiracies...Do something productive

Book Reviews
   Starting Over

Profile:
    Jim Gibbons

Recipes:
    Some herb garden recipes
    My favorite soup recipes
    Synopsis of sourdough

Original poems:
   John Silveira

Just for kids:
    Killing some time

Contents

Building

• Build your own home, Part 2 — concrete and masonry
• Simplified concrete and masonry work

Country living

• Driving back country roads
• The miracle of a country birth
• Dueling duck

Independent energy

• Try an isolated gain passive solar house

Self sufficiency/Food/Money

• Make delicious wine at home
• Free supplies for your homestead
• Muzzleloaders — art, science and a piece of history

Farm/Garden

• Grapes — with 3000 varieties, you can grow them almost anywhere
• Garden huckleberries — hardy, easy to grow and tasty as blueberries
• Short season gardening
• Kiwi fruit — healthy, delicious, low-maintenance
• The 10 most useful herbs
• Tips for cold-climate herb growing
• The fence post tomato trellis
• Raising sheep
• Improving poor garden soil
• Deer discourology