Countryside & Small Stock Journal. The magazine of modern homesteading. Promoting self-reliance and simple life style through home food production, gardening, cooking, food preservation and other homesteading techniques

Countryside Magazine & Small Stock Journal.

91 years old, and a new wrinkle with every issue!

What's happening this month on your Countryside homestead...

Current Issue: January/February, 2009		In This Issue:
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Countryside Living
One woman’s perspective on the many facets of life in the Wisconsin northwoods.

The Scarecrow Chronicles
Keeping watch over the homestead.

From the Countryside Online Library:

All around the homestead
• Equipping the "ideal" homestead in the 21st century
• How many ways can you save time?
• Are you depriving your kids?

Your homestead business
• Selecting and starting your ideal home business
• Marketing your crafts
• Wholesale vs. retail, Part I: Retail

Alternative energy
• Purchasing and using a masonry stove
• Is homegrown wind power right for you?
• Solar hot water, anyone? System options for every climate

Homestead Construction
• Energy efficient homes
• Designing your ideal homestead
• Build your own solar shower for pennies

Country kitchen
• Learning to cook on a woodstove
• Sourdough bread variations
• Stocking your emergency food pantry

Homestead crafts
• Design your own insulating window quilts
• A second life for bluejeans
• Rags to rugs

Crops & soils
• The soul of soil
• Composting at home
• No-till, permanent bed farming

Homestead finances
• How to thrive on half your income
• How we went from $42,000 to $6,500 and lived to tell about it!
• Coping with today's economy

The garden
• Grow herbs in winter
• Scarecrows that actually work
• The $2 garden

Homestead livestock
• Livestock on the homestead
• Donkeys on the homestead
• The importance of biodiversity in livestock production
• Getting started with bees
• Selecting cattle for your small farm
• Start your own meat goat herd
• Draft horses—as useful today as ever
• Raising your own backyard pig
• Raising ducks and geese on pasture
• Fundamental principles of rabbit feeding
• Milking sheep offer a new small farm alternative

In the wild
• Milkweed: A truly remarkable wild vegetable
• Wild onions—punchy, pungent, perfect
• Wild parsnip: It's like raiding a garden, but better

Notes from the Northwoods
• Eating out of your garden
• Build a homestead one-log hauler
• Building and using a midwest solar food dryer

Self-reliance/Survival
• How to purify water in an emergency
• Lost in the wilderness! Tips to help you emerge safely
• A simple hand-warming heater you can make yourself

Homestead water
• How to get water from a drilled well when the power is off
• Conservation tips for everyone
• Homestead water procurement

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COUNTRYSIDE is the truly original country magazine (established 1917) serving that branch of the Voluntary Simplicity movement seeking greater self-reliance (homesteading), with emphasis on home food production. This includes gardening, small-scale livestock, cooking, food preservation, resource conservation, recycling, frugality, money management, alternative energy, old-time skills, home business, and
much more.
COUNTRYSIDE features reader-written personal experiences and photos straight out of family albums, making each issue just like a long letter from friends who are living the good life, beyond the sidewalks.

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Some men can never state an ordinary fact in ordinary terms. All their geese are swans, until you see the birds.

— J.B. Owen