Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    Bad laws, good solutions

Periodical Review
   The Caretaker Gazette

Recipes:
    Making sourdough bread
    Old-fashioned desserts

Just for kids:
   Some summertime secrets

Original poems:
   John Silveira

Contents

Making a living

• Here are some home based businesses that are worth trying
• You have to shovel crap before you learn to be the boss
• Grow and independent living with a cut flower business
• Odd-jobbin' can be a country goldmine
• PV as a country business? — if you're a jack-of-all-trades
• Here's how to start a part-time, one person mail order business

Building/Tools/Housing

• Use your own sawmill to cut lumber prices
• Here are three ways to build a stanchion

Country living

• Outlaw wisteria

Self sufficiency

• A local barter network creates new options
• Try an ex-military truck for rugged, reliable service
• Install a remote telephone line

Farm/Garden

• Raising goats as a business is a profitable and fun venture

Homeschooling

• Help your children to read by teaching them the phonics basics

Americana/History

• America's earliest First Ladies were fascinating