Countryside January/February 2014

Countryside & Small Stock Journal
January/February 2014 • 98/1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
• Lifestyles and Habits Determine System Design
• Adventures in Solar Water Heating

HOMESTEAD LEISURE
• Go Ice Fishing On Your Homestead Pond
• Tips From An Ice Angler
• Dressing For Success (and Survival) on the Ice
• Essential Supplies For Winter Traveling

LIVESTOCK HEALTH
• Managing Livestock in Winter Conditions

HOMESTEAD BUSINESS
• Schuler Gail: Making a Small Farm Work

THE PIG PEN
• Misery Loves Company

THE COW BARN
• What’s Up With Watusi?
• Training Oxen, Part II: Making a Team

THE HENHOUSE
• Raising Chicks From Day #1

THE WOODLOT
• Oh, Deer!

THE GARDEN
• You, Too, Can Be a Composting Fool!
• If Tomatoes Could Talk
• What’s In Your Cabbage Patch?

HOMESTEAD KITCHEN
• Tamarind: A Natural Laxative & Food Enhancer
• Roasty, Toasty, Warming Tea

HOMESTEAD BUSINESS
• Keep Calm and Call a Lawyer, or Not

COUNTRY NEIGHBORS
• The Off-Grid Christmas Tree
• Life on the Homestead: The 3rd Chapter
• Growing Up a Farmer’s Daughter

IN EVERY ISSUE
• Country Conversation & Feedback
• Capture Your Countryside
• Bookstore
• Almanack
• Marketplace
• Breeders Directory/Classifieds

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