Note from the publisher

Letters

Editorial:
    James Madison's warning is more important now than ever

Reviews
   Write your own curriculum
   Home School: Another Choice
   School Mom (software)
   Safe-Trek Outfitters
   Imprimis (periodical)

Recipes:
    Choosing flavor enhancers to make everyday eating an adventure

Just for kids:
    Hard working worms

Original poems:
   Patricia Soule
   Sophia M.M. Burt
   Robert C. Larson

Contents

Building/Tools/Housing

• Here's a simple device to improve rough roads
• How to make knives and sheaths
• Here's how I built a 1000-gallon septic tank
• Try a gravity flow water system
• Women and kids build a straw bale wall
• Make your own tool handles

Homeschooling

• Homeschool your kids using apprenticeships
• How to earn your college degree outside of the traditional classroom
• Homeschooling our teenagers in the backwoods was one of the best decisions we have ever made

Country living

• Driving and keeping your car running in winter
• Adopting a wild horse
• How to cope with winter blues
• When Irish eyes are smiling — a love affair with Kerry-Dexters
• Cookstove lore
• Excessive overhang

Farm/Garden

• Whether they're new or historic varieties, some apples just belong in a country garden

Guns and hunting

• Backwoods firearms

Crafts

• Make quick-as-a-flash "winter warm wear"

Americana/History

• Carver — he wrote the book on self reliance
• John Fitch — a forgotten inventor