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The Fifth Year Anthology
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Complete List of Articles
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
- The timberwolf woodbox
- Simplified concrete and masonry work
- Determined woman builds distinctive
verticle log studio
- Learn the basics of wall framing
- Build a fieldstone chimney
- Build an earth-sheltered log cabin
- How to build a low-cost log lifter
- Use your own sawmill to cut lumber
prices
- Here are three ways to build a
stanchion
- Building an expensive log house —
the cheap way
Country living
- Planning is an essential key to
achieving the country life
- Some tips on moving to your country
home
- How we bought our country home
- A tale about tenure in the
neighborhood
- Winter ch-ch-ch-ch-chores
- Planning a move from the city to the
country
- Living the country life
- Driving back country roads
- The miracle of a country birth
- Dueling duck
- Good-bye old friend
- Moon over Bogus Brook
- The great cow caper
- Lucky duck
- How ya gonna keep 'em down on the
farm — after they've seen the mall?
- The gosling that lived
- David and the D-4...a short story
about growing up
- Preventing and surviving stove and
chimney fires
- Some thoughts about my wood
cookstove
- Learning in the pickle patch
Independent energy
- The solar-powered silent partner
- Try an isolated gain passive solar
house
- For a truly independent energy
system, your choices are solar, wind and water
- Independent energy runs Backwoods
Home Magazine
- Designing for solar heating
- Mico-hydropower — a working example
- Here's a low-cost, low-tech
refrigerator that really works
- The care of lead-acid batteries
- Build a 12-volt power plant from the
junkyard
- Firewood — how and what to buy
- Making and using a solar cooker
- Converting your gas car to electric
is no shocker
Self sufficiency/Food/Money
- Supplement your income by teaching
others your skills
- The bow and arrow: low tech tool for
food, entertainment
- Make delicious wine at home
- Free supplies for your homestead
- Muzzleloaders — art, science and a
piece of history
- Five simple things that make our
life easier
- Choosing and using a wood cookstove
- Health care begins at home
- Start a home-based food business
- Handguns are useful tools for the
homesteader
- Trading your city house for a
homestead — a taxing move?
- Make a lifeline before you need it
- Try an ex-military truck for rugged,
reliable service
- Install a remote telephone line
Crafts
- Make a patchwork baby bunting from
scraps
Farm/Garden
- Native of the forest: a guide to
growing ginseng
- 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
- Raising sheep
- Improving poor garden soil
- Deer discourology
- How to care for and feed the family
pond
- Raising water buffalo — are they
better than cattle?
- Raising fish in the farm pond
- Raising goats as a business is a
profitable and fun venture
- How to keep those excess eggs
- Turkeys — fun and profitable and not
as dumb as you think
Homeschooling
- Help your children to read by
teaching them the phonics basics
Home education
- Home schooling — is it right for
your kids?
- Some homeschooling ideas
- Child-led learning
Americana/Society/History
- Explore the world with shortwave
- Looking behind the Declaration of
Independence
- America's earliest First Ladies were
fascinating
- Collecting old phonograph records is
fun and educational
- Former first ladies — beautiful,
brilliant, crazy
Miscellaneous
Editorial
- Whether it's small town or big time,
the envirnoment or health care, the government is not the answer
- Forget conspiracies...Do something
productive
- Self reliance — the key to happiness
- The beast is at the door again
- Bad laws, good solutions
- Politics, self reliance and Bill
Clinton
Profile
- Jim Gibbons
- Mick Sagrillo, Wizard of Wind
Recipes
- Make better pizza at home than you
can buy
- Cooking with dried fruit
- Some herb garden recipes
- My favorite soup recipes
- Synopsis of sourdough
- Three great bread recipes
- Quick & easy veggie food
- Making your own sourdough yeast
- Chinese cooking
- Sun oven cookery
- Making sourdough bread
- Old-fashioned desserts
- American food — it's as varied as
the melting pot
- Try traditional early American fried
squirrel
- Barbecue a whole goat (and more) in
an imu
- Your throw-away fish can be keepers
if you know how to prepare them right
- Poor man's shrimp cocktail on perch,
and...
- Sourdough with substance
- Venison recipes
- Pemmican — the all-purpose food
Just for kids
- You in the big night sky
- Killing some time
- Sun-kabobs & solar sizzle
- Some pioneer recipes
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