A great advice on how you can live exactly the dream life you want.

Living High on $6500 a Year January/February 1970 by DARRELL HUFF REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION OF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AND DARRELL HUFF A free-lance jack-of-all-trades tells how a family can live like millionaires on a modest income.

Everything you need to know about freelance cartooning.

Freelance cartooning: How to develop this home-based business on a grass roots level.

Marketing ... the real secret of making it your way.

Uncle Relhok talks about how he made it into freelance cartooning

What a Bunch of Characters! January/February 1970 If there's anything an editor likes better than a well slanted cartoon, it's a well slanted, offbeat cartoon feature. Preferably, something he doesn't see arrive (in dozens) every day of the week. The CHARACTER SPREAD is such

The kind of slanting that guarantees 95% sales record: humor the editor.

A philosophical rumble by Larc Relhok, who still believes most good cartoonists are nothing more, nothing less than gag writers with one head.

How much should you get for your cartoons?

Carl Kohler talks about the ways to market cartoon illustrated humor scripts.

How to get around Commercial Cartooning

How some city peace creeps came to the country, picked wild flowers, developed some muscles, made a lot of friends and set the North Land free.

Make yogurt using an electric culturer or on the stove.

DIGGER BREAD January/February 1970 DIGGER BREAD Every time we make this bread, it's a big hit around our house. Have a big hit around your house. You will need two coffee cans for two loaves. The same cans are used for measuring and baking. It's a good idea to use the th

Rod MacDougall talks about his visit to Morning Glory Farm, an Ontario Canada rural community.

An outdated, but valid $1 a week food plan.

The great farm revolution: or a radical commune approach to revolution.

Clean air, craftsmanship and making it your way — what more is there?

Population, pollution and consumption.

Answers to every cartoonist'’s questions about advertising cartoons.

Constructing a plains Indian tipi: the best movable shelter ever developed.

The Unanimous Declaration of Interdependence March/April 1970 When in the course of evolution it becomes necessary for one species to denounce the notion of independence from all the rest, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the interdependent station to which the na

The Robinsons talk about why they moved to the country and how the Have-More plan came about.

Mr. R. naturally does the heavy work in the garden and with the animals, while I take care of canning, freezing and household jobs.

What Sort of Place Do You Have - Or Want? March/April 1970 WHEN we first wrote our Have-More Plan we thought of it simply as a way a family could raise a good deal of its food on an acre of land. A little land - a lot of living was our idea. Imagine our surprise when we began

The biggest and most important job any of us attempt during our lifetime is setting up a productive country home from the Have-More Plan

The fundamental difference between the ordinary suburban house and a house that’s really satisfactory for productive country living or a small farming operation is illustrated in the these floor plans from the Have-More Plan.

What you need is a streamlined, modern little food-conserving setup, combined with the charm and warmth of Grandmother's kitchen.

Make sure your land is suitable for intensive cultivation, from the Have-More Plan

The transformation of a little house into one large homestead house from the Have-More Plan.

Checklist of details of a Have-More homestead, from the Have-More Plan.

Water ... Sanitation... Electricity ... Roads March/April 1970 A SPRING is simply an opening where water flows out of the ground. It may be located at the bottom of a pond or lake. If you have a good spring near your house you may be saved the expense of digging a well.

What you need to know about locating your rural water supply, from the Have-More Plan.

Landscape Your Place-Increase the Value 20% March/April 1970 Developing a Plan ALTHOUGH our homestead is not for sale, in January of this year I was offered more than twice the amount we originally paid for it. Part of this increase is due

Plans for a Small Barn March/April 1970 by Ed Robinson The idea for this Have-More Plan came to us at a party—our own barn warming party. When our small concentrated barn was finished, we thought it deserved a celebration. And so we invited all the neighbors and our friends to come and see i

Physical contact with the good earth and livestock are the best antidotes to the mad, hustle and bustle of our present work-a-day world.

Seven fundamentals and ideas on having a good garden with a lot less work, from the Have-More Plan

A comprehensive chart on vegetable planting from the Have-More Plan

All about growing herbs and some easy to grow herbs list, from the Have-More Plan

The Kind of Berries and Grapes Money Can't Buy March/April 1970 BERRIES and grapes are one of the best investments you can make. Here it is early December and this morning for breakfast we had some of our own delicious raspberries and cream. When some friends c

Great advice on how to have your own home orchard on a small land, from the Have-More Plan

Fresh Eggs From Your Oven Hens How to produce your own fresh eggs without making that trip to a poultry farm, from the Have-More Plan March/April 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors PERHAPS this sounds fantastic but we find that it's not much more work producing our own eggs than it is to make a we

New, Easy Way to Raise Tender Chicken March/April 1970 ONE of the most successful projects we've undertaken is raising chickens to eat - broilers and fryers, in what is called a broiler battery. This efficient new way of raising eating chickens has become increasingly popular

For variety, raise at least one other kind of poultry aside from chickens. Consider raising geese, from the Have-More Plan.

A digest of the cardinal principles of scientific turkey raising, from the Have-More Plan.

How to plan your duck raising program, from the Have-More Plan.

What you’d want to know about squabs before starting your new squab raising project, from the Have-More Plan

Rabbit-8 to 14 Cents a Pound March/April 1970 ONE of the first projects I wanted when we moved to our place in the country was rabbits. I had read many times that they produced excellent tasting meat at little cost. Carolyn, however, was sort of skeptical of the project beca

Ham, Bacon, Pork, Lard March/April 1970 You can breed the pigs and buy the corn and get on; You can raise the corn and buy the pigs and get on; If you buy the corn and buy the pigs to feed, you haven't got a chance; But if you breed the pigs and raise the corn you'll make m

Producing your own milk and dairy products, from the Have More Plan

The Robinsons talk about raising goats, from the Have-More Plan.

KEEPING a cow, like marriage, is a confining and responsible relationship not to be entered into lightly. Flirtation, study, an engagement, even trial marriage are advocated, for dairymen, like fond parents, are unduly enamoured of their heifers.

Before we discuss a better way to get started, let's take a look at what is necessary in the way of pasture, grain, equipment, time and money to economically produce your own lamb.

All about veal and beef on the homestead, from the Have-More Plan.

What you need to know about bees and having your own little sugar factory, from the Have-More Plan.

Have More In Winter, Too! March/April 1970 NOW we come to a part of the Have-More Plan that probably gives Ed and me the most satisfaction of all-preserving food in various ways so that we live off the fat of the land all year round. Food preservation also has

Economical greenhouses from the Have-More Plan.

Having a fish pond in your back yard seems almost too good to be true, but experts say you can build one for as little as $100, from the Have-More Plan.

A simple program that will help keep your woods in good condition, and provide firewood and some lumber, from the Have-More Plan.

The rewards of housekeeping can be tremendous, from the Have-More Plan.

Learn how to maintain your own homestead, from the Have-More Plan.

Earning Money In The Country A list of several service industries you can work for in a country to earn money, from the Have-More Plan. March/April 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors There is definitely a great interest in working as well as living in the country. We receive many letters from folk

The first Plowboy Interview with John Shuttleworth, editor/publisher of The MOTHER EARTH NEWS.

CARE Who will, if- we don't??? May/June 1970 OK, gang. Earth Day (April 22) is over. Remember all the slogans and the buttons and the long lists of Great Ideas That Will Save The Planet? Where are they now . . . now that we should be living them? Maybe - with the p

The Shoshone of Nevada used Lithospermum rudeale as a contraceptive.

Thomas and his personal alternative - periodic retirement.

McNamara lives better on less in New York City.

Work when you choose, with people you like and make as much as you want or need.

My $25.00 Log Cabin May/June 1970 By Lawrence Goldsmith There is no need to think in terms of a multithousand dollar expense for a house. A warm cozy log cabin can be built easily in a few months time for a cost of under $100. My 12 x 12 log cabin at the Heathcote Community took 2 1/2 months and $25

Free Folk is no more... and here’s why.

Locating and buying low cost land can be easy for anyone to do, and Goldsmith tells how.

It IS possible to use technology FOR the planet.

Now... Electricity From Manure Gases May/June 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors Reprinted by special permission from the May,1963 FARM JOURNAL,Inc. Make electricity front hog manure? You're kidding! No, honest . . . I've just visited a farm where they're doing it. The owner is Dr. Georg

Specific construction details.

The Good Life as lived by one young family in the British Columbia Kootenay Mountains.

Sillers talks about Camp Counseling and why she likes it.

Living and traveling in an ole-timey mobile home.

Theodore Merrill interviews Ed van Buskirk and his organization, the Arborcafe.

An introduction to Organic Gardening.

Build Your Own Energy Materials Imagination May/June 1970 Don't Be boxedin Resort to ecological principles: MONEY DOES NOT EXIST. ONLY: Energy, perseverence and imagination are needed but these resources are limitless—unaffected by the laws of

Foraging in nature’s own garden.

Build Your Own Energy Materials Imagination May/June 1970 Resort to ecological principles: MONEY DOES NOT EXIST. ONLY: JOE HRYVNIAK Energy, perseverence and imagination are needed but these resources are limitless—unaffected by the laws of supp

How Many Harvests Have We Left? July/August 1970 by MARTIN JEZER from EVO Despite highest crop yields per acre in history, American agriculture is in a state of acute crisis. Farmers have been treating the soil the way speed freaks treat their bodies - with similar

Folk Festival of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

This is the way to save up to 70% on food in Canada in 1970.

Learn how food co-ops operate in California.

The Willamette People's food corp.

The inside story of birthing a co-op store in Madison Wisconsin.

Salaff talks about leftovers and what to do with them.

The formation of the Cuyler-Warren Consumer Buying Club in New York City.

A serious attack on the high cost of food, land and money is being made by a group of School of Living members. Don Newey, a member of the board, has formed an organization to establish a series of farmer-consumer cooperatives based on the principles he's

About Rivendale and how the commune spirit continues near Eugene, Oregon.

The Coopers make it down the ole Big Muddy.

A second installment of Darlington’s Introduction to Organic Gardening.

Apple picking can be tough but it is good work. Learn how to be a fruit tramp in this article from Spokane Natural, Spokane Washington.

You Can Drive Your Own Well A little muscle and a little know-how can add up to plentiful water for the homestead. July/August 1970 excerpted from Popular Mechanics Several new back-to-the land communes and couples have asked about low cost methods of drilling a well. Here, from the April POPULAR

Learning how to cut hair was a mini-gesture of dissent against the technocratic society that insists we have to go to an expert for everything we need rather than learn to do whatever needs to be done ourselves.

You're concerned about the chemicals, pesticides, preservatives and pollution in your food, and you'd like to do something about it.

Don Dyson: Rambling Painter July/August 1970 by BRIAN N. MARI Reprinted with permission of MOTORHOME LIFE A studio motorhome started its travels from Selby, North Dakota, with artist Don Dyson, a landscape painter, at the wheel. Mrs. Dyson and seven children, ra

What you need to know about New Mexico before visiting.

Building a dome home: The secrets of a Buckminster Fuller-style 16 1/2 foot, 25 foot and 30 foot dome.

Scott suggests one solution to facing yourself alone before going back-to-the-land: the job of forest fire lookout.

First aid with a light touch.

Karhu’s whole clan harvests nature’s bounty.

Do-it-yourself beer for home consumption.

A Plowboy Interview with Arthur Shaw on copionics, the theory of global sufficiency.

Here are several little ideas to cut day to day living expenses.

British Columbia: Paradise on the Pacific September/October 1970 HOMESTEADING IN CANADA by VIKKI OSINSKI ANOTHER GARDEN Long before Europeans came to spoil and pillage this North American Continent, Nootka, Salish, Kwakuitl, Haisla, T

For wilderness retreats or summer anchorages, an especially attractive area is the North Coast of British Columbia - a land of snow capped mountains, dense forests, rushing streams and deep fjords.

If you can afford enough land to support a family in southern Ontario, you should go a bit north and buy enough to support two families The rivers here are mostly so short they don't reach the roads and railroads (over 50 miles away) and so, should be

In New York City, The Loft commune members are intent upon being successful.

The facts behind the stereotyped image of public welfare.

It sheltered many a homesteading family through the first hard years on the plains. The dugouts, amazingly was probably as comfortable a home as any our pioneering forefathers ever knew.

How to Copyright, Publish and Record a Song September/October 1970 This article is based on a lecture given at Oberlin College by John Bassette. Singer-songwriter, actor and all-around Good Guy, John has appeared at Carnegie Hall in the New Songwriters Concert, with Sammy Davis in

Horseshoeing for the Rank Beginner A solid introduction to a necessary back-country skill. Moving from urban to a rural environment, shoeing horses can be a necessity. Here are some ideas that will help you over a few of the rough spots in horseshoeing. September/October 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS edito

Want a $15,000 home on a limited income? Barney tells us how to recycle an abandoned schoolhouse by remodeling the old building into a modern home.

How to harvest and prepare another bountiful free for the eating crop: Persimmons. Croley shares in this article how to preserve the pulp into persimmon leather.

An offhand account of the heady hobby of this little old Oberlin wine maker: David H. Benzing, assistant professor of biology at Oberlin college and a fascinated fan of the grape.

Cheap 'N Easy Wine September/October 1970 In the DEAR MOTHER section of TMEN NO. 3, Gary Dunford asked if it's possible to make wine at home without buying $40 worth of equipment. The answer is yes. I started making wine with stuff I could scrounge while livi

Here’s a Dandelion wine recipe — the formula for one gallon of wine that's supposed to have health giving properties. Light and lively directions for the old standby.

Cheney talks about heating for free with used crank-case oil. He tells how to do it by following construction drawings exactly and observing proper precautions when using your heater.

How to swap a painting for anything in the world. Read about Carolyn Thomas, official artist of the West Penn Kennel Club, and a real horsetrader with portraits.

Low Cost Legal Aid Do you need legal advice but hesitate to get it because you're afraid of what the lawyer might charge you? Read on about low cost legal counseling and the LRS (Lawyer Referral Service). September/October 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors DO YOU NEED legal advice but hesitate to

A Plowboy Interview conducted by Alice Ballard interviewing Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, director of Musee Oceanographic, Monaco, at Oceanography 2000.

Fourteen kinds of foraged fare from the B.C. Provincial Museum: Edible Mussel, Ostrich Fern, Sword Fern, Brachen Fern, Mountain Bilberry, Red Huckleberry, Salmonberry, Blackberries, The Junipers, Clover, Plaintain, Wester Yellow Pine, Lodgepole Pine, and Fireweed.

The land is still there for the settling. Here’s information regarding homestead sales, acquisition of recreational land and sale or leasing of land in Alberta by the Department of Lands and Forests.

The Complete Gentleman Homesteads In The Bush Conroy builds a sod house on back-tax land in Ontario. Paul tells the story of his attempt to get back to the land. September/October 1970 By Paul Thayne Conroy HOMESTEADING IN CANADA All over Canada and the United States, people — both old and

Death may claim our wise brother but the words of Walking Buffalo, Tatanga Mani, live on.

Another selection from Darlington’s book on organic gardening. Here's some advice on preparing your California soil for the next year's vegetable garden.

Report From Them That's Doin' September/October 1970 We've been on our homestead for three months now. After renting one farm and trying unsuccessfully to grow a commune, we finally found these 24 acres that we can (?) afford. We haven't had a lot of success with 1

Food Without Farming September/October 1970 Summer is moving along swiftly here in Wisconsin. Chicory, along the roadsides, is high enough to wave its blue flowers in the slightest warm breeze and wild mint is very noticeable. The well-known catnip—another mint—is also

Beginning, of a heavy series by Ken Kern, author of the Owner-built Home and Homestead. A collection of information on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques in home-building.

HOMESTEADING IN CANADA September/October 1970 OK, gang. Here it is. In answer to many requests for information about immigrating to and homesteading in Canada, we've put together the following twenty-one pages. Since our space is small and Canada is large, this report

The Complete Gentleman Homesteads In The Bush September/October 1970 HOMESTEADING IN CANADA by PAUL THAYNE CONROY All over Canada and the United States, people — both old and young — are attempting to get back to the land. Wonderful! I'm quite in favor of such action, even w

WHOLE EARTH CATALOG is a giant. Ecology as a movement, as a religion, is tremendously exciting, and everyone can get a piece of the fervor

HY Mayerson on the 1899 Refuse Act.

Lack talks about the art of trashmongering and scavenging at Baltimore County Sanitary Landfill.

There's a surprising number of checks and vouchers with your name on them just waiting to be picked up.

Careful planning and a few minutes a week is all it takes to take advantage of refund offers.

Creative Consumption November/December 1970 ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN VOCATIONS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Here are some hints on getting food, heat and other necessities for free or a fraction of their usual cost - not by forging off into the wilderness with guns and axes,

Shop for groceries in the store dumpster

Read on and learn why the goat is considered to be man's second best friend.

Farris talks about raising and breeding goats in your own homestead.

How to prepare and construct a compost pile.

A very easy and sanitary way to dispose of garbage, and save dollars with a garbage disposal container.

ASH PILE,TRASH PILE November/December 1970 by RUTH HAMPTON Successful gardening like successful parenthood is one of those skills that some of us gain slowly and quite by accident. Although my mother was tiny, she was a determined wheelbarrow expert who single-handedly

Cover crops or green manure grown not for harvesting but for improving the soil.

CLEANING KILLS! November/December 1970 Nearly everyone is aware of the smog we breathe, the oil fouling our beaches and the mountain of one-way containers filling the canyons, all the major ecological problems. As desert residents, however, we have less contact with a prob

Churchill talks about his camping with the family and how they foraged a good meal in the remote wilds of Canada.

VSC: Visit to a New Planet November/December 1970 by Ray Schwartz Vocations for Social Change is more than an idea. It is more than people. VSC is a living, breathing creation of the generation of youth, peace and love. Some three years ago in Nashville, Tennessee,

Although locating a suitable homestead and obtaining reasonable purchase arrangements may seem difficult, it definitely is possible for almost anyone with a little cash and a steady income.

Here are the most common foods of the mid-continent pioneers: leather britches, corn, wild fruits, like strawberries and fox grapes dried as raisins, wild persimmons, etc.

Here's how to preserve beans in an old-time way.

Renaissance Silver Shop Carter Rhys talks about his silver shop, Renaissance and how to start a silver business. November/December 1970 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors When I was asked to write this article I had grave doubts as to whether I could be of much help to anyone. If considered as a real

Here is an inexpensive coop with which you can gain maximum results from rabbits, easy to build and inexpensive.

Melvin talks of his dreams of staying at home, being his own boss, and earning enough to adequately support family, with an organ refurbing business.

Familia: Survival Food November/December 1970 Familia is a grain, fruit and nut combination developed by the Swiss. Some friends living in the Bay Area gave me the recipe and I, in turn have passed it on to others—most of whom had never heard of the mixture. Doing

Power! November/December 1970 As you'll remember, we put out an appeal for a LEJAY manual in Issue 5. Well, no sooner had that number gone to press than we received the No. 5 issue of COUNTRYSIDE. And what to our wondering eyes should appear but the very address of the Lejay

World Game: a unique experiment to develop a computer coordinated model of planet earth - used to play the world and develop ways of running the future for the benefit of mankind.

Build a potter's kick wheel under sixty dollars that's very reliable, fairly cheap and easy to make. The rich satisfaction you'll get from throwing pottery on a wheel you've built yourself is an added bonus. Includes a materials list, detailed instructions, photographs and diagrams.

Florine Acheson talks about soybeans as their main source of protein.

No matter what the origin, divining or dowsing or witching for water is practiced all over the world and despite scientific ridicule, water witches still flourish today.

Tips on how to try your hand at dowsing by A.B. Lowery

G.L. Jamieson and his Aquatometer water finder.

Beyond Free Schools: Community November/December 1970 by JERRY FRIEDBERG The Lorillard Children's School was the most nourishing, wonder-ful, genuinely libertarian scene I had ever known . . . yet I left after just one year as its non-Director. For all of us (and I think I can

Food Without Farming No. 3 November/December 1970 by JAMES E. CHURCHILL Though some may find it hard to believe, I know where there is a patch of May apples that covers a quarter-acre. Normally I see the plant growing in bunches only a few feet square and I was really amaze

An Plowboy Interview with Dr. Rene Dubos, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction for his book So Human an Animal, and a dynamic leader in the fight to save the environment.

Okorn talks about how they started as a family and how they rebuilt their neglected and badly eroded 138 acre farmland.

Preparations for the upcoming winter, and a bread recipe using midwestern, soft-type wheat.

A collection of information on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques in home-building.

More on Canadian Immigration November/December 1970 Since our special feature (in NO. 5) on emmigrating to Canada, we've received two letters telling us that getting across the border as a landed immigrant is absolutely the easiest thing in the world and that there's no mystery at

A manifesto on the world ecology year 1972 at a meeting held in San Francisco in July 1969.

Dr. Henry Winthrop’s own list of the Eupsychian Network in the effort to remove some of the limitations in Maslow’s Eupsychian Network.

A mini-manual on starting your own poultry on the homestead.

On the health of chickens and other poultry.

Tips on handling chickens with coccidiosis, getting grit for these birds, hatching your own fertile eggs, and cooking leghorns.

Get your advice on the methods of starting your own rock shop from a successful small rock shop proprietor.

Dreaming of a fur coat but don’t want to endanger any fellow mammals? Head to a second hand store, purchase coats from the 50s, and recycle!

Get basic axemanship advice in this article and learn how to wield a most useful tool!

M O R O C C O . . . January/February 1971 . . . for far out retirement by CAROL J. MAY Whether you're retiring for good after a full career of nine-to-five or just getting out of the system before it gets you, why not get way out? Past the air pollut

Learn how to recycle old homes and deserted towns, and help give an entire village a new lease on life.

Here’s a recipe for crunchy granola, inexpensive, delicious and nutritious.

An article on the traditional Finnish bath: Sauna, from its purpose to its construction.

Homesteading in British Columbia.

With a Corona grain mill, you can transform inexpensive, bulk grain direct from the farm or a feed and seed store ... into piping hot steamy, muffins and other delicious end products — right in your own kitchen.

Bring on that fresh ground whole wheat with these delicious recipes for whole wheat bread, gingerbread, pancakes, waffles, biscuits, muffins and cupcakes.

for 2? fancy January/February 1971 HOW I FEED MY TRIBE OF FIVE A STICK-TO-YOUR-RIBS BREAKFAST FOR LESS THAN A HALF-PENNY EACH by IRENE CLAWSON A steaming bowl of cracked wheat cereal, swimming in milk and topped with brown sugar is a r

Getting a cookstove, the anxieties and pleasures in using the range, and what she learned about cooking on a woodstove.

Here’s how B. Touchstone Hardaway bakes whole wheat bread in the old cookstove.

Esther Shuttleworth lists and talks about the cookstoves she has used over the years.

food without farming n o.4 January/February 1971 by JAMES E. CHURCHILL It is very late fall as I write this and the first flakes of snow have already fluttered to the ground in Northern Wisconsin. The wild plants that will yield food are getting scarcer . . .

A Plowboy Interview with Robert and Deborah Arnold, the founders of The New Earth Communications Co., on their objective to promote environmental change beyond the stereotyped approach.

Tips on how to plant for flavor and nutrition; and what seed variety to plant and where to get them.

Read how the Okorn’s harvested garden-fresh vegetables all winter long.

Roberta Hammer talks about milking the goats, apple trees, corn pickers, christmas pony, and thanksgiving turkey.

Ken Kern's advice on selecting a homestead site, building climatology and central heating.

COON RUN FARM January/February 1971 by ROBERTA HAMMER A Christmas pony for Ann has maybe launched a new source of income for us! We live at the edge of a tiny town of 200 people, three churches and one grocery-feed store. While making a deal for the pony with the o

Dear Alice January/February 1971 sThe following letter from George Bumpus was originally published in the TRIBES column, edited by Alice 2, of the GEORGIA STRAIGHT, 56A Powell St., Vancouver 4, British Columbia, Canada. Weekly, $7.00 a year. Get it. It's the best alternatives new

Here’s a list of ecological alternatives, from The Ecological Living Handbook.

Harold Bate, a British farmer, thought a chicken-powered car running on methane biogas would be a logical way to beat the high tax on his native England’s gasoline prices.

and now... aquaman March/April 1971 by ROD CHADWICK Chicken Man (England's Harold Bate) is already marketing a kit which frees automobiles from the surly bonds of gasoline by unleashing the power inherent in humble manure. Now Aqua Man, Spanish inventor Eduard Estevel,

Perhaps the most disastrous of the human consequences associated with the power plants will be the desecration of Black Mesa.

Here’s a quick, easy, no-mess way to an earlier, hardier garden using peat pellets.

For a richly satisfying, cash money project to finance that homestead it looks like growing herbs - with net profits as high as $5,000-$10,000 an acre - just about beats all.

25? Put Us In The Herb Business March/April 1971 by DOLLY LOEPP You certainly don't need a rich uncle, complicated equipment or a lot of land to set you up in the herb business. You can make your own beginning with little more than a 25¢ packet of seeds. Herb growing

Letter From A Nomad I chose this way to freedom because it offers me the best of two worlds. I can live most of the time away from regimented, congested, indefensible cities, yet still profit by exporting my labor into those cities March/April 1971 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors on the road again

Tips on custom designing a motor home to your own requirement from.

Here’s what you need to know about mobile homes, including the various types, running gear, size, materials, furnishings, purchase and registration.

keep on truckin March/April 1971 by STEPHEN KOVAKA A small step-in van, I believe, is just about the handiest vehicle there is. We've had ours for nearly two years and—in that time—it has probably paid for itself (I'll tell you how to arrange that), been our

yurts . . . old March/April 1971 Blizzards with temperatures down to -50° have howled across the steppes and plains of east Asia for untold centuries . . . and, for many of those centuries, nomadic herdsmen have survived such storms — snug and warm — inside the traditio

YURTS ... NEW March/April 1971 A modern version of the age-old yurt is popping up all over the country like some friendly toadstool these days and a fellow name of Bill Coperthwaite in Bucks Harbor, Maine is responsible. The following article, by Bill himself, tells how—some

Build your own details with Dick Shuttleworth’s Chicken Feeder.

If you think the back-to-the-land movement is attracting young freaks, misfits, the alienated and disenchanted revolutionaries, the Christian Homesteading Movement will set you straight.

University of Arkansas Experiment Station has finally unlocked the secrets of the pokeberry and discovered how to increase and speed up its germination so that it is now comparable with other garden seeds.

It is possible to fly across the country absolutely free on a major airline.You probably won’t make it happen everytime you try, but you’re almost certain to fly no-charge once in a while if you know the rules of the fare game.

A visit to the Hog Farm, the first farm they visited which lies amid low, rolling hills half a mile from the nearest road. Grant tells us about the life down the commune.

Here are a few of traditional recipes plus an unlikely organic gardening tip that can change your saddest rose bushes into the showpiece of the homestead.

Sam Owen talks about building a home from railroad ties picked up free, using only materials worth $300 for the basic structure of a 2,200 square-foot, three-bedroom house.

Get great advice on how to build and maintain a successful homestead fish pond.

GO NATURAL: RAISE ELK March/April 1971 by VICTOR CROLEY: Few states had game laws at the turn of the century and wild meat was offered to the housewife along with beef, pork and mutton. Wild pigeons were, for a time, so plentiful that often only the breasts were taken an

food without farming no. 5 March/April 1971 by JAMES L. CHURCHILL At first glance the deep snow and cold of winter might seem to preclude any harvesting of wild foods. Not so. Our old friend, the cattail, sleeps under the ice with almost all the

Mable Scott tells how they bought five lots with a river through the backyard and how you could do it too.

An Plowboy Interview with Buffy Ste. Marie on how she used her talents as a performer  to spotlight the problems the American Indian faces today.

Roberta Hammer talks about winter as the homesteader’s time of trial.

An open road across big country, Al Fry talks about living a good life on the road in a van.

Here's an article from Ken Kern's Owner-Built Home and Owner-Built Homestead, great advice on installing a fireplace and heating with it.

Joel Randall PREFORM-INFORM March/April 1971 July 11, 1969 was my last day of institutionalized employment. After selling most of our personal items and organizing the balance, we moved on. Our living quarters are a 1966 Avion 25-foot single axle travel trailer. We

Peter PREFORM-INFORM March/April 1971 My wife, two-year-old child and I presently live in a 22-foot, chassis mounted, channeled-through motor home on a one-ton Ford truck. We've been in this rig for the last eight months. Before that we lived in a 21-foot trailer for a yea

Tom Terrific March/April 1971 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors INNOVATOR The primary gratis rental for the nomad and/or remote traveler is absentee-owned land. Roads and fences to be repaired, cattle watched and timber guarded are only a few reasons that absentee land owners seek farm and ranch ca

We have been living in our school bus-converted-to-camper for six months now and doing very well. After I left Xerox, I took a job for three weeks with the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethal, N.Y. We are actually trying to

Mashall Efron demonstrates how you, too can make lemon cream pie without lemons and without cream. A partial transcript from Effron's recent production on educational TV's THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE.

A Plowboy Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller,  scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, designer, architect, cartographer and creator of such principles as synergetics, tensegrity and ephemeralization. Fuller talks about his philosophy on which he based his now-famous World Game.

How to divert the forces of necessary development into sites where they do the least harm to our future environment.

Get your spring coat, sweaters, some dishes and slacks for only ten to twenty-five cents! Rummaging is loads of fun - if you like treasure hunts - and is a marvelous grass-roots way of recycling clothes and household goods.

June Fingulin tells how she prepared for a successful garage sale. Here are some tips on how to make your garage sale a success too.

An overview on homestead solar heat: Sunshine Power- heating a home by harvesting the energy which flows freely down from above - is a relatively new concept for the homestead

One of the all-time great elusive dreams of Americans is a little home-based business. Here's how to make a guaranteed and genuine $12,000 with a home typing business.

The LeRoys and their haven on Guemes Island in Washington state's Puget Sound, and their belief that farming organically is a way of life and their choice to use their resources and ingenuity in a bold attempt to reclaim land that agronomists have labeled unsuitable for farming.

Chuck Crouse shares his discovery that a broadcast journalist can make it on his own as a freelancer.

You can stay ahead of harmful insects in many non-violent and non-poisonous ways through companion planting, natural repellents, natural sprays and dusts, evasion and deception, intoxicants, good microbic agents, insect predators and parasites, birds, pou

Schillinger shares this method of drying sweet corn which is easy; plus recipe for cooking it.

A more humane and satisfying procedure for un-domesticating a guinea.

Moose tells in this article how large cable reels can be converted into attractive lamp tables with very little time, effort or money.

R.J. Holliday, D.V.M. talks about giving wound care to injured animals.

An ecology observation in the year 1971: The 50,000 people who attended this year's opening day of Earth Week left a mess of litter behind them - in contempt of the principles for which they ostensibly were gathered.

Here's some honest information on natural and home deliveries and the risks involved.

Here's an account of a mother's delivery by the Lamaze method of prepared childbirth.

Martha Stratton talks about delivering her first baby in England by the Lamaze method, and how she prepared herself by reading and practicing exercises.

Here is C. Mishler's account of delivering her baby at home using the Lamaze method and how she prepared for childbirth.

Sharon Maehl tells how she gave birth in a hospital using natural methods of childbirth: a well-planned hospital stay of only a few hours.

Hewton Weller, self-taught electronics researcher released a strange story that told his long efforts to develop a reliable tornado detection system, and gave simple instructions for turning any TV set into a tornado detector.

Rod Pidgeon talks about Khaki Campbell ducks, getting the best crops by pruning the branches, compost heaps and cooking meat.

Here's two tipis Charles Worth built and lived in, and the most unique thing about them is they didn't cost him any money at all.

Stuart Silverstein shares the solution to his water supply problem: installing a faucet near the bottom of a garbage can and setting it on the kitchen countertop.

Geodesic domes, are cheap, strong, light and graceful but little information is available on small domes. This article is intended to help fill the information gap by explaining the theory on which domes are based, and to encourage you to try designs of your own.

Rod Chadwick returns from his 2000-mile round trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and talks about a paradise for the settling.

Here's a good start on making your own pellets - without the non-biodegradeable nylon wrapped with them, but swaddled in good ole organic cotton cloth.

You can work your way to almost anywhere in the world on a freighter, without money, short hair, applications, experience or references - all you need is a passport and a vaccination certificate.

The story of a tough, old, white oak tree, thirty years from its death to its fall.

Hammer talks about outdoor gardening, a new goat and laying chickens in spring.

Nancy Bubel talks about their homestead in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and foraging.

A Plowboy Interview with Professor Bruce McDuffie, a chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton and his discovery of .75 parts per million of mercury in cans of tuna taken from supermarket shelves.

YOU CAN BUY A GOOD USED CAR FOR UNDER $100 May/June 1971 by PAUL WEISER WELL FOLKS . . . UNTIL LEAR PERFECTS HIS DREAM CAR OR THE COST OF PROPANE CONVERSIONS COMES DOWN, IT LOOKS LIKE MOST OF US ARE STUCK WITH TRANSPORTATION POWERED BY GASOLINE-FUELED INTERNAL COMBUSTI

Here's why you should get your own Dome East kit now.

Wild plants that are warmed by the gentle May sun, are absorbing minerals and manufacturing vitamins that will keep a food forager clear-eyed and strong. Some of this fare that we find in May are alfalfa, clover, thistles, violets, ferns, and sorrel.

The Owner Built Home & Homestead May/June 1971 By Ken Kern KEN KERN Ken Kern, author of THE OWNER-BUILT HOME and THE OWNER-BUILT HOMESTEAD, is an amazing fellow and everyone interested in decentralist, backto-the-land, rational living should know of his work. Back in 1948 he began collectin

Typesetting May/June 1971 If you still think that all typesetting is dirty, noisy, hard work done on a cumbersome, clacking, linecasting monster like the one down at the weekly newspaper's office. . . you only know half (the outdated half) of the story. There are t

Tapping the Market May/June 1971 To make any business—typesetting included—succeed, you must sometimes sell. But that doesn't necessarily mean a back-slapping, glad-handing door-to-door effort. If you're uncomfortable selling you may find composing to be a very attractive

Nomadics produces undoubtedly the finest manufactured tipi available.

How to speak ecology with a forked tongue.

Common Sense Control of Insect Pests on Homestead Animals July/August 1971 by R. J. HOLLIDAY, DVM Several years ago it was possible to find advertisements similar to the following in many small farm publications circulated throughout the nation: GUARANTEED INSECT C

Chief Dan George speaks about living in a dying culture.

A tenderfoot's Guide to Painless Bicycle-Camping

Your Garden + Natural Mulches = Better Harvests July/August 1971 by BETTY BRINHART When my parents migrated from the Ukrain region in Russia to the rich farm lands of Illinois during the late 1800's, they were already experienced organic mulchers...not from choice, but fr

Roger Lovin receives a letter from a reader, George Tucker, of his column, Ecommando Tactics

David Foraker talks about peddling produce door to door, peddling regulations, and the secret to peddling success: sincerity and a warm heart.

THE GROUP July/August 1971 by THOMAS BEVIER Reprinted from MID-SOUTH MAGAZINE, The Memphis Commercial Appeal The commune is beside a stream called Big Piney, in the hush of worn Arkansas mountains and fully five hours from the pace and pavement

Here are the things you need to know to get you started on the road to fame and fortune as an antique picker.

Survival Sewing July/August 1971 by DONALD R. BLUM HOW A MAN CAN REPAIR ALMOST ANYTHING PLIABLE WITH A 30¢ PACK OF FIVE NEEDLES Possibly the greatest tool buy in the world today is an old-timey bargain package of five strange-looking needles.

Foraging in the wild is a great way to keep real stuff in your menus, but there are many earth things in tame places too, in cities, town parks and streets, small towns, rivers, cemeteries, and trashmongering.

Here are the secrets of down-home weather forecasting, bits and pieces of scientific information, weather lore and personal observation that help you to know what to look for and what conclusions to draw with a little practice.

For all struggling artists, ways to sell your paintings and the basic rules to consider to make your selling a success.

SELF-HEATING, SELF-COOLING HOUSE July/August 1971 By Wendell Thomas   In 1948 my wife and I joined Celo Community, Inc., in the mountains of Western North Carolina and I chose a site — just off the top of a ridge, on the south side — for building a house. Our place was 100 feet above the highway a

Learn about canning and preserving food without refrigeration.

A Plowboy Interview with Murray Bookchin, aka, Lewis Herber, an anarchist ecologist, on his works and interest on environmental, social and ecological problems.

Roberta Hammer talks about the weird weather, disappointing chickens, pregnant goats and building a big bio-dynamic compost pile in this Report from Them that's Doin'.'

Nancy Bubel talks about their homestead in Pennsylvania Lancaster County and foraging.

Everything you need to know about going back to the land in Britain; its opportunities for the purchase and rental of small and inexpensive farms, land agencies, small hotels, and transportation

July and August are very productive months for the wild forager, James E. Churchill shares these wonderful treats with Juneberries, wild, black and choke cherries, the great burdock and wild onions.

One of the series of Ken Kern's books on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. Kern talks about summer cooling, and earth block construction in this article.

Harold Bate of Devonshire, England, devised a way of producing automobile fuel from animal droppings.

Salli Rasberry and Robert Greenway talks about starting your own school and writing a book.

The truth about raw sugar, light, dark brown and Kleenraw sugar. The facts of sugar refining, and what you should know about sugar.

Clarissa Ehrman and Jeffrey Hinich share how they turned a milkhouse into their snug winter lodging, without heating bill, and cool natural air conditioning during summers.

GEOTHERMAL POWER September/October 1971 By BARRY FISHLER/COVER PHOTOS BY ANDREW SCHNEIDER/COVER Modern man—that's you and me — is power hungry and, in particular, we just can't seem to get enough electricity. On the other hand, we now know that gener

Traditionally, only hay, grass clippings, leaves and other easily biodegradable matter has been used for this job. Recently though, a number of gardeners have begun spreading sheets of black polyethylene film across their gardens with rather startling results.

more! plastic mulch September/October 1971 TOM DOYLE, OVER IN INDIANA, ALSO USES PLASTIC MULCH . . . BUT HE DOESN'T RECOMMEND THE 1-1/2-MIL POLY THAT F. P. HUGHES USES. Without once touching a hoe or plow, you can harvest up to twice as much produce earlier i

Eliot and Sue Coleman find homesteading is a satisfying way of life. The young couple aren't the forgotten victims of rural poverty or some natural disaster, but live as they do out of choice. Here is a reprint of their story from The Wall Street Journal.

If you're a passably-fair guitar player and wondering how to make money, look no further... Suzette Haden Elgin tells us exactly how to earn $40 with your guitar almost anytime you feel like.

Macrame, or the art of creative knotting, may look difficult but its really about as easy as tying your shoes and as inexpensive as a ball of twine. All you actually need to join the growing ranks of macrame addicts are your fingers, some string and the mastery of a few simple knots.

A retired Corps Commander speaks his heart. Here's an excerpt of a speech, delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. - from GIDRA, a California Asian Paper

sourdough September/October 1971 Reprinted by permission from ALASKA/monthly /$6 a year/130 Second Avenue South/Edmonds/Washington My college student son and I were starting on one of our all-too-few quail hunting trips when I noticed he was packing along a

Clarence Massey's recipes for sourdough are darn good ones...but there's more than one formula for sourings and the baked goods made from them. Here are two more variations on the theme.

The answer to exorbitant prices for oil and parts are in two Maine towns, people are finally breaking that cycle of repair-to-work-to-repair by organizing Cooperative Garages. - reprinted by permission from MAINE Times

If you're looking for a pleasant way to pile up money for that big move to the country, you might try heading for a university and just live there. Kate Carleton tells us how to save money and get paid by being head resident in a dorm.

As Kate Carlton pointed out, a college can be a handy steppingstone back to the land. Then again, you might want to stay right there once you settle down to a living in a small college town.

The venture that keeps Dennis in the business of living is the business of making and selling candles.

J.V. Dorner shares some tips on buying a recycled workhorse.

I've been living—and living well — for the past ten months on Chinese food (CF) and the trip has been so successful that I'd like to spread the word to others.

If you want to conserve on cooking space, fuel and time, you need a wok... the simple conical metal pan used by the Chinese for centuries.

A Plowboy Interview with Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and The Maple Sugar Book.

Speaking For Alaska's Greatest Resource September/October 1971 By Sam Wright THE BUGLE-AMERICAN/2909 N. HUMBOLDT AVENUE/ MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 53212/WEEKLY/$9.00 A YEAR. NOTE: The following was given in testimony by Mr. Wright earlier this year before a Departme

Nancy Bubel reports from their homestead on their camping, picking vegetables, wild herbs, elderberries, summer and school.

James E. Churchill talks about more wild foods in this series: elderberries, Jerusalem artichokes, hazelnuts, sunflowers, and apples.

Water is mankind's most wasted commodity. The water needs of a primitive savage — for drinking, cooking and occasional washing-have been estimated to be 1 gallon per day; the average modern city dweller uses 1,200 gallons per day. This includes his share of industrial and agricultural usage in the country and over the world. It takes, for instance, 65,000 gallons of water to produce one ton of steel; 225 gallons to produce an egg; and 550 gallons to grow the grain and produce a loaf of bread.

At home with The Nearings September/October 1971 Issue # 11 - September 1971more At Home With The Nearings

Speaking For Alaska's Greatest Resource September/October 1971 By Sam Wright THE BUGLE-AMERICAN/2909 N. HUMBOLDT AVENUE/ MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 53212/WEEKLY/$9.00 A YEAR. NOTE: The following was given in testimony by Mr. Wright earlier this year before a Departme

One of the most concise, level-headed overviews of England's (and our) ecological problems we've seen as published in the August 1971 issue of the Ecologist.

How a retired gentleman who lives in the sticks makes money driving other people’s cars.

Rasberry and Greenway talk about starting your own school. According to them, every group has its unique mix, its balance, its magic mood of harmony waiting to be discovered.

Here's what Organic Merchants have to say about the process of refining oil, and what consumers should know about vegetable oil, and its nutrients.

Experts predict the world will run out of refineable oil within 30 years, so it might be a good idea to start looking around for ecologically-sound alternatives of energy.

From the Gobar Gas Research Station in India, established in 1960.

Take one rather dilapidated old log cabin on five acres in the Ozarks, add a tumbledown log barn from some miles away . . . and what do you have?

According to Beatrice Trum Hunter, there are many varieties of this easily-made, tangy, fermented liquid-and within rather wide limits-homemade vinegar can be just what you want it to be.

Before you use your entire harvest of grapes, apples and pears for wine, jelly or just plain eating... try mashing some for vinegar.

Delightful gourmet vinegars that commands such fancy prices at the store have a very simple base... apples. Let your imagination soar and see what you can create. Here are four proven recipes: Orange-rosemary vinegar, spice vinegar, mint vinegar, and onion family vinegar.

Virginia Owens talks about beekeeping and hopes to convince other that it’s quite possible to keep these little creature healthy, happy and productive enough to provide some measure of family income... even though you may not know what you’re doing at first.

Michael Blake on the Indian history of the American West. Dee Brown's book is the first detailed chronicle of the destruction of a people, its saga is so complete in its grisliness, its horrors of inhumanity, and its sweeping injustice.

Here's an example of one of the best features of Environmental Action called Debunking Madison Avenue in which a nationally-published advertisement is printed, then picked apart with a very sharp weapon (the truth).

SPROUTS: November/December 1971 miracle food for a nickel a pound One of the basic tenets of the (Heaven forbid!) Protestant Ethic is you don't get something for nothing . . . and the way we've allowed the system to become organized, that's certainly true. In fact,

Here are ways of preparing sprouts. Try these tantalizing recipes: eyeopener breakfast sprouts, omelette au sprout militaristica, sauteed sprouts, creamed sprouts, oriental main dish magnifique and quick-fix tasty treats.

Your community may now have an exciting and dynamic new voice. A voice that will create far greater awareness of everything thats happening in your community. It's called Cable Television. Here's an article on how to co-opt your local cable tv system.

One notable sister journal of Mother is a friendly little magazine called COUNTRYSIDE published by Jerry Belanger up in Marshall, Wisconsin. Started in 1969 for the same reason of helping spread information on life styles that are more in harmony with the better interests of the planet on which we live.

If you'd like to curl your hair but don't want to get into store-bought plastic rollers, metal pins and clips, maybe you should try the old -time paper curl.

MAKIN' DO November/December 1971 By CATHY JOHNSON —CURRENTLY HOMESTEADING IN MISSOURI WITH HER HUSBAND (SLEEPY), SOME GOATS, CATS, CHICKENS AND RABBITS—IS PAST AND PRESENT MASTER OF THE ART OF MAKIN' DO...AS HER ART WORK AND FOLLOWING LIVELY DESCRIPTION OF THR

Make unwearable or irreparable clothes into something useful like turning them into practical and comfortable braided rugs.

The most important ingredient of a braided rug- outside of your labor and love - is the recycled fabric from which it's made of.

Let the real meaning of Christmas shine through, Roger Lovin shares how he spends his holiday season and urges us to give a moment's thought to what it is that you do, what you are celebrating and why.

Elgin shares her personal experience providing steno service to salesmen and shares how you can be successful in this painless, part-time and profitable home-steno service. A Bootstrap Business

Here is another example of a commune that has endured for a length of time, organized around a very strong and dynamic leader.

Avoid great financial entanglement and still have a rugged, healthy truck by shopping carefully for parts and doing your own maintenance.

Purcell tells how to choose the right used pickup through its maintenance potential (how easily and economically a machine can be repaired by its owner), and other conditions of the truck to check before purchasing it.

Here are some more tips on buying a used pickup truck; including information on parts that see the greatest wear (running gear, axles, drive shaft, tie rods and brakes).

A Plowboy Interview with Tom Bauyacya, a tribal leader of the Hopi — People of Peace.

There are many variations in the formulas and proportions used in making old-fashioned root beer. Here is a typical recipe.

Foraged fare from James E. Churchill. Here are some recipes for wild foods such as purslane, wild mustard, pigeon, deer, snapping turtles, and arrowhead tubers.

One of the series of Ken Kern's book on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. Kern talks about the foundation, rubble masonry and composite building materials in this article.

A 100-mile stretch of virgin seashore on Mexico's west coast between Acapulco and its commercial cousin up the beach, Zihuatanejo.

Here are Deane Simmons' travel tips on how to enter Mexico the easy and less expensive way, places and people to avoid, and where to stay while in Mexico.

Mike Kiernan reports on ecology, politicians and the big biz.

Macdonald shares how to produce a new ricky-tick harpsichord sound from your piano using 2 cards of thumbtacks.

Here are some good and not so good feedbacks on the Home Composing Biz article

The Kappel's have gone natural, and learned to cut costs while raising income and standard of living by recycling and wasting nothing organic

Here are some tips on making soap and rendering fat and making lye.

Soap making in the woods can be an almost automatic thing, with hickory, sugar maple, ash, beech and buckeye as the best producers of lye plus a bucket of rain water and some left-over cooking fat - you can easily brew up enough soap to clean everybody and everything that need it.

Haywood shares how she made soap on the homestead with a little help from the country agent

Tips, recipes, and instructions on soapmaking, from preparing fat, recipes for all-purpose soap to variations in soapmaking.

Pssst! ... hey kid, Wanna Buy a caboose? January/February 1972 In the early morning, before most people get out of bed, I usually go for a long walk just to absorb the unadulterated sounds of nature . . . and it was on just such a walk that I discovered a purple caboose parke

Here's Ken Kern's response to the feedback on his slip form masonry.

Folks on limited budget should know that they can stretch their food pennies with a tasty, nutritious combination of pinto beans and corn, Recipes.

More On Candlemaking Candlemaking can be a profitable business, but unlike any home industry, the expense of materials can put you out of the running before you begin... unless you know where and how to buy. Here's how you can buy your wholesale supplies. A bootstrap business January/February 1972 By Chuck

The old ways can be the good ways. Here's how Ezell carries her baby with an old triangular shawl.

If you're stuck in the city and long to move to the country, a home-based moving or trucking business might help you earn your way out. All it takes is a second-hand truck or bus, a stable telephone number, strong arms and a broad back. Here's how two people worked day and night for a year and bought a farm.

While in Arkansas this past summer, we constructed a sturdy and waterproof shelter for a truly small cash outlay.

A gentle introduction to a gentle art. Rasberry shares how to spin wool and color it with natural dyes, also native dyes and a Navaho spindle.

feedback on guitar workshop January/February 1972 Feedback on Guitar Workshop How to Teach a Guitar Workshop (MOTHER NO. 11) might've more aptly been titled Take the Money and Run. It contains just enough truth to sound good: formal guitar classes using traditiona

The Bureau of Land Management Is Protecting (?) Your Land: John and Betsy Morris fight for the Thornfield Farm against the Bureau of Land Management's plan to create logging access roads through their back-country retreat.

Some beautiful old farm may be just waiting up in Minnesota for you to come and claim it. Here's how Cuddy bought a 120-acre farm for just $42 an acre.

If you're still thinking about making your great escape to the North, you may appreciate a few tips that the Cuddy's learned by doing.

... more on back-tax land January/February 1972 Dear MOTHER, According to the Minnesota VOLUNTEER Magazine, there are over one million acres of backtax land (wooded, not waterfront) available in St. Louis County, Minnesota alone . . . to say nothing of nearby Itasc

A Plowboy Interview with Steve Brown and Victor Schiff founders of the Ecological Food Society.

Rasberry and Greenway talks about starting your own school, number three in the series.

Harness that stream and forget the electric company. Here's the first of three installments of the five-part article printed by Popular Science that very concisely sketched out every step necessary for establishing a small water-power plant on a farm or homestead.

As we pull the curtains early after supper to shut out the dark these days, I see the wide old window sills piled high with gourds. They're all volunteers from the tired gourds we tossed out on the snow last January (some are bumpy . . . those are the ones I like best) and the sight starts me summing up the year's harvest.

James Churchill on wild food foraging: ice fishing tackle, cottontails, wampee and bur reed, and locust beans

One of the series of Ken Kern's book on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. Kern talks about wood and wood-frame structure in this article.

Here's Krishna Eagle and his family's story and how MOTHER had helped them find their organic existence in British Columbia.

Maehl talks about settling on their homestead in Costa Rica.

With no money, no publicity and virtually no plants, Donn and Rachel Tickner started a retail organic nursery. All they really had going for them was a healthy stock of reverence, know-how and determination. A bootstrap business

Feedback on previous articles on plastic mulch.

There's a joyous sense of accomplishment in producing a healthful, organic sweetener for your kitchen, here's how to make and market maple syrup.

A properly managed privy is at least as healthful for people and land as a septic system, and is far more than a place to evacuate waste.

Feedback on foraging turtles.

You can reap rich garden harvests on slim expenditures of time and physical exertion by putting a rug in your produce patch.

Make and market beaded craft items. Inexpensive, enjoyable and profitable, beading offers more than full or spare-time cash. A bootstrap business

OUR $150 HOME IN THE WOODS March/April 1972 by MARY LEE COE Some time ago I determined that I would take as much responsibility as possible for the conditions of my life and, toward that end, I worked in New York City editing manuscripts for a year until I had

There is an alternative to the sugared, chemicalized, flavor-enhanced yogurt found in the supermarket. You can grow your own culture at home - at a fraction of the cost.

Shellfish :the generous shore March/April 1972QUAHOG (c?/hawg); mercenaria mercenariaSCALLOP , atlantic bay; pectens irradiansCLAM , steamer; mya arenariaOYSTER , atlantic crassostrea virginica PERIWINKLE littorea littorinaBLUE MUSSELS mytilus edulis RAZOR CLAM ensis directus

Sea scrounging - for everything from clams and mussels to crabs to bait, cat food and fertilizer - is both easy and fun and the booty can be mouthwateringly delectable. Here's an overview of seafood that can be foraged.

The Eight Acre Plan started by Earl Shell is a hardnosed, practical program designed to raise the net income of any farm family who will plant one acre of strawberries, two-acre of blackberries and raspberries and five acres of apples or peaches.

How To Get Paid For Taking A Free Vacation If you enjoy outdoor life, cycling, all-expense-paid vacations and the company of young people... you should know about the program originated by American Youth Hostels, Inc. March/April 1972 By Greg Siple If you enjoy outdoor life, cycling, all-expense-pai

 Here's an alternative way of earning money without getting into the 9-to-5 ratrace.

One of a series of Ken Kern's advice on building your own home and homestead. Here's an article on water management and a free-form house.

A Plowboy Interview with nutritionist Catharyn Elwood, the gracious, camera-shy author of Feel Like a Million, a book on nutrition and health.

The colas are coming with non-returnable or throw-away bottles and cans close behind.

Our final reprint from the book on how to start your own school

Plans for pelton and overshot water wheels.

James E. Churchill talks about more wild foods in this series: elderberry stems, prickly lettuce, dandelion crowns, watercress, wild lettuce and soybeans, and calamus or sweet flag.

Shaving with a straight razor is a very simple idea that will preserve your face — and in some small measure — the environment as well. Here's some advice on how to use a straight razor with selected tips on finding and buying one.

If you have no land to grow your own vegetables, why not borrow some? You may suddenly find yourself using the land for free, growing your own wholesome food and promoting the concept of organic gardening all at once!

A Plowboy Interview with Euell Gibbons wild food gatherer and author of many wild food books, including Stalking the Wild Asparagus.

Rabbits can be a valuable addition to the family homestead. Domestic rabbit meat—while not a staple of the supermarket — is nourishing, sweet, all white and tasty. It doesn't have the gamy flavor of a jack rabbit (which I still prefer) but you don't have to worry about cracking your teeth on stray bird shot when eating the home-grown variety, either.

Earthworms are not usually considered farm livestock and they produce no eggs, milk, meat or other direct benefits . . . except their use as bait, a factor not to be underrated by the small farmer in fishing country. The little wigglers, judiciously harvested from a pit and sold as bait—either to passing customers or to a fish and tackle shop—have kept many a small operator in spending money.

Have you ever dreamed of living the Good Life out in the country far from the city's noise and pollution and still get paid for doing all this while you protect natural areas from the dangers of civilization? Be a caretaker for a government, corporate or privately owned country property.

It's certainly nice to make a satisfying living while playing at the hobby you enjoy.

Read about Roger's Alaskan lemonade business. A boot strap business

Mostly bad feedback on the Ecological Food Society, and Steve Brown's feedback on the feedback.

Read how Coggins learned to grow ten times more poundage off the same plot of organically-rich ground by (1) planting jumbo varieties of vegetables, (2) concentrating on the heavy yielders and (3) doublecropping.

Our Homestead Buildings Cost $215 May/June 1972 by FRITZ and MEGHAN BERNARD My wife, Meghan, and I have found that a comfortable house, sturdy outhouse and woodshed can still be built for practically nothing here in the continental United States (as we'll soon relate) . . . bu

First time farmers usually do pretty well with gardens, chopping wood and building outhouses.. but the birth of that first calf or litter of pigs generally sets 'em back a couple of notches. Here's the first installment of Dr. Holliday's remedy for delivering livestock.

Rate points out problems of cowkeeping today which were not appreciable a generation ago... and suggest ways around them.

The grass business is not for everybody. It entails ungodly hours, hard work, threats from bumblebees and lightning bolts... and little glory. Then again, if you like the idea of being your own boss while you work in rhythm with Mother Earth, the establishment of your own clover runs might be just what you're looking for. A bootstrap business

Each small bay scallop yields a single nugget of light, opalescent meat that is unsurpassed by any sea food for flavor and delicacy.

BUG CONTROL... CHEAP, EFFECTIVE AND NATURAL! May/June 1972 by MARY GAYLE FURLOW • PHOTOS BY BILL FURLOW Home gardeners in the Rocky Mountains receive plenty of encouragement to use chemicals. In one recent Denver-area newspaper alone, I counted no less than

FOOTPOWER! May/June 1972 By Kim Zarney NOW SHALL I WALK OR SHALL I RIDE? RIDE, PLEASURE SAID; WALK JOY REPLIED. W.H. DAVIES Hiking in the mountains means cold nights and changeable days. A wide-brimmed wool hat, Alaska

Eagle and Bear in British Columbia build a pole barn.

More on Earl Shell's success with the small family farm. A dynamic new growing and marketing concept that could well put the small family farm back on the map in the United States.

Harold Bate has made a great contribution to the world by publicizing the fact that you can operate our automobiles on low-emission fuel. His suggestion that we can actually produce one of those fuels methane from barnyard manure is also very exciting . . . but the famous patented Bate Autogas Convertor Device, designed to allow a standard automobile to run on methane, may not practical at all.

A tried and tested low-emission fuel, liquid propane, and the easy-to-install system results in lower operation and maintenance costs, much longer engine life and 70% less air pollution.

A is for Apocalypse and Amchitka revisited.

MORE COW TIPS FROM ESTHER SHUTTLEWORTH May/June 1972 Esther Shuttleworth—who's been known to raise, keep and milk more than just a few cows in her day — has absorbed just as much information about the critters as has Hank Rate. Most of her rules of thumb jibe with Hank's

James Churchill on wild food foraging: trout fishing, puffballs, silverweed, oyster plant, stewed salsify, and slippery or river elm

Another of Ken Kern's series on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. Kern talks about soil management and walls in this series.

MORE COW TIPS FROM ESTHER SHUTTLEWORTH May/June 1972 Esther Shuttleworth—who's been known to raise, keep and milk more than just a few cows in her day — has absorbed just as much information about the critters as has Hank Rate. Most of her rules of thumb jibe with Hank's

Is there life after death for beer cans? The Atomic Energy Commission's National Accelerator has come up with an idea that might make it easier for you to have that strong but cheap easy-to-build, cabin or shed of your dreams: beer cans on fiberglass.

One fourth of the cans of tuna on supermarket shelves were as contaminated as the first tuna scare that destroyed the US swordfish industry and crippled the tuna fishermen.

THE G.E.R.M. OF AN IDEA: HOW TO DO A RECYCLING CENTER July/August 1972 by MARJ COVERLEY If you're already living on the land, you may well lie awake quiet nights dreading the day when either people from the cities or refuse from those steadily expanding Big Towns will flow, rele

A Year's Supply of Roasting Ears For 75? July/August 1972 HOW TO GET by JACK ROLAND COGGINS Priced close to 10¢ an ear as it is on supermarket counters, corn would seldom be enjoyed by my family of six hearty eaters if we didn't grow our own. Seventy-five cents

What I needed was an inexpensive (very), summer home which would give me those comforts AND which could be put together by a handful of people in less than a handful of days.

An ole-timey tip: after cleaning fish, chill them thoroughly in cold water. Then place a handful of sphagnum moss in each body cavity before packing.

Here, step-by-step are some instructions for transforming the tiniest flowing spring into a dependable year-round source of drinking water.

Ed Sabin's spring get-together with all of his CONTACT friends in Law Pearson's 40-acre farm.

Barbara Theil's article Make Yer Own certainly inspired a flood of favorite down-home methods for brewing up a batch of the creamy treat.

If you can type, are willing to meet some standards, can work under the pressure of a deadline and live in or near a university or college town you can start a home business - full or part time, be your own boss, improve your professional skills, meet interesting folks and make good, honest money typing college papers. A bootstrap business.

Shellfish: The Regal Crustacean July/August 1972 by Jan adkins that rascal the LOBSTER is the regent of seafood. Before his ferocious, spiked and clawed visage, his sweet, white flesh, all other creatures are gastronomically subservient. The lobster was once

Here's some feedback from Mother's readers on the BLM-Morrises issue;(from issue # 13) a new annotated version of the official government letter on the Morris Case; and a list of people and organizations to write to for a letter-writing campaign to help the Morrises.

Here's an overview on how to build a ferrocement boat, Fishler tells us how ridiculously easy it really is to pour your own boat.

How We Found a Live-Aboard Boat in B.C. July/August 1972 By CLIFF HOUFF, GUY DU LAC & JACOB WEIERMAN British Columbia, Canada is a fertile hunting ground far those folks into boat living. The large fishing industry here spins off whole fleets of used vessels in a variety o

Lynn tells us of her life with Bob on a small boat in the Bahamas, and some interesting recipes like Nassau Salt Fish and Rice and Sea Grape Jam.

The Whiz Bang Quick City, an instant town of mostly cardboard domes and polyethylene inflatables erected for four days near Woodstock, New York. Read how Walker and Mangurian started this architecture project.

Le Fleur reports from the Alaskan Interior on keeping quail and a fantastic way to fix the eggs. Here's how Melinda pickles her quail eggs.

Read how Roe visits his farm (unoccupied land within walking distance) to harvest free-for-the-picking produce and select whatever's in season.

New Vrindaban July/August 1972 By HOWARD WHEELER I've seen members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness chanting Hare Krishna on the streets of New York and San Francisco so many times that I was immediately interested when I heard of the Society's commune

DO IT NOW! July/August 1972 By TOM AND LINDA TEMPLE So many of the letters to MOTHER seem to be from folks who are going to move back to the land that we feel like standing up and shouting, There's only one time to do it . . . and that's NOW! If you're

There are a number of ways to take your child out of public school and avoid hassles with the authorities too. Here's an article by Harold Zina Bennett excerpted from No More Public Schools.

You can make a macrame hammock from the simplest of ingredients: two poles for the ends, cord for the middle and two eyebolts or some extra rope with which to hang the finished work of art.

A Plowboy Interview with Lola Redford and Ilene Goldman, founders of the environmental organization Consumer Action Now.

Kiernan reports on the yawning of America, Humphrey, the happy warrior, and the Congress' Dirty Dozen.

Grow It! July/August 1972 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play around wit

A HERDSMAN's HANDBOOK FOR THE MODERN HOMESTEADER Here's installment number two of Dr. Holliday's manual precisely designed to explain all the animal facts of life in language that new back-to-the-landers can understand. July/August 1972 By R.J. Holliday Beginning farmers usually do pretty well with g

James E. Churchill talks about more wild foods in this series: wild asparagus (steamed, souffled, crumbed, in soup and with yogurt); giant and saltwater bulrush; grass; and algae.

One of a series of Ken Kern's advice on building your own home and homestead. Here's an article on building a pit greenhouse.

Lifestyle! Interview: HARTMUT VON HENTIG July/August 1972 Hartmut von Hentig—a wiry, energetic man with a thin, craggy face—doesn't really look old enough to have gone to school during the Nazi rise to power in Germany . . . but he did and, possibly because of that experien

The Swagman July/August 1972 By DENNY HUETTER Two years ago i bought a used half-ton Chevrolet pickup truck and started operating my own hauling business out of the city apartment in which I lived. The enterprise was successful right from the start and has solved the money

Feast: A Tribal Cookbook July/August 1972 THE TRUE LIGHT BEAVERS From the book FEAST: A TRIBAL COOKBOOK Copyright © 1972 by The True Light Beavers To be published in October by Doubleday and Company, Inc. FROM ZEN BASKETBALL TEAM TO MOUNTAINTOP TRIBE —

A Plowboy Interview with Ira Neiger, the 1972 Director of Public Information for Planned Parenthood's New York City office.

The Grand Tetons September/October 1972 A couple of us MOTHER people were recently flown out to Grand Teton National Park to witness the dedication of a new Indian Arts Museum at Colter Bay. The trip gave us a fascinating insight into the way big and little government,

Pumpkins, Are For Fun, Food & Funds September/October 1972 By JACK ROLAND COGGINS Pumpkins are for laughter — for Jack-O-Lanterns and Halloween — during the cool, overcast days of autumn. Pumpkins are for pies . . . all winter long. And

Since the early 1800s, the icehouse has been one of the self-sufficient, non-electric homestead's most valuable buildings.

tiptoe through the tulips ... profitably! September/October 1972 BY BETTY BRINHART THE TULIP BULBS YOU SEE ON THEOPPOSITE PAGE. ARE JUST AS GOOD AS MONEY IN THE BANK TO THE FOLKS WHO GREW THEM . . .AND BETTY BRINHART SAYSTHAT RAISING THE FLOWERS CAN BE AN IDEAL

A mini-article that sums up the most important points raised by the opponents of Dorothy Lockard's piece, Consider A Canine Cash Crop.

Adkins tell us about the few hard rules in fishing techniques: bottom fishing, jugging, casting and strolling.

There are thousands upon thousands of abandoned farmhouses scattered throughout the U.S., at bargain basement prices. Mark Gregory gives some advice on how to inspect an abandoned farmhouse before purchasing it.

Brinhart shares the four things that are extremely important to the production of noteworthy cottage cheese, and some reasons causing unsatisfactory cheese.

Chadwell blends an interesting home craft with today's pollution problem by recycling throwaway bread wrappers into soft, cushiony, crocheted rugs.

Nature has free power available for you, without polluting Mother Earth or consuming her resources. Think about harnessing the wind.

THREE LOW-COST HOMES SPROUT IN MAINE September/October 1972 Taken from the article Alternative Architecture Arriving by John Hale in the Somerset Reporter, Nov. 25, 1971. Photos by Hale. The Great State Of Maine (as they say at the political conventions

Nancy Bubel reports on how she raised pork chops and some pig facts and figures.

MOTHER lays down a concise set of instructions for the home freezing, smoking, canning, and preserving of meat from the Morton Salt's excellent booklet, A Complete Guide To Home Meat Curing.

More hints and tips from MOTHER's readers on buying used pickups.

Mike Kiernan reports on ecocide in the Indochina war; and Smokey the Bear, the legendary forest ranger now the government's merchant prince of conservation.

Installment No. 3 from Dr. Holliday's handbook designed to explain all the animal facts of life in a language that new back-to-the-landers can understand. Here's a chapter on animal birth and delivery.

Grow It! September/October 1972 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play around

Here's Snooker's divine inspiration: Original Hot Apple Pie Sandwich.

Foraging in nature's own garden with James E. Churchill: white pond lily, squirrels, acorns, nettle root, and ground cherry.

One of a series of Ken Kern's advice on building your own home and homestead. Here's an article on plant management, sod crops and do-it-yourself painting. This series is taken from Ken Kern's Owner-Built Home and Homestead.

Here's a drawing and schematic of the bio-gas plant designed by Ram Bux Singh for the MOTHER EARTH NEWS and a few photographs of the digester under construction.

Fertilizer November/December 1972 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play around

Bringing power to a homestead would have cost $3000 or more plus a minimum bill of $15 per month for the next five years, instead Henry Clew spent many hours during the summer setting up a complete and self-contained electrical system.

Installment No. 4 of Dr. Holliday's herdsman's manual, here's another chapter on common sense cattle nutrition.

GARDENERS: DON'T FEAR FALL FROSTS! November/December 1972 THIS NEBRASKA VEGETABLE GROWER SAYS THAT YOU'RE CHEATING YOURSELF IF YOU GROW ONLY A SPRING AND SUMMER GARDEN! Much of my very best vegetables, fruits and berries are harvested long after the first fall

Here, from the book The Art of Making Wooden Toys, are two sets of plans, the first shows you how to put together a cradle that's just the right size to tuck a doll or teddy bear into... and funky biplane guaranteed to delight any young aviator or aviat

Before the invention of modern green roofing materials, people who wanted a living roof used sod roofs to protect their homes from rain and to insulate ceilings. Learn how you can install a sod roof on your home.

The Generous Galley Eats Here's how to prepare fish chowder, quahog chowder, stuffed quahogs, filets and clambake. November/December 1972 By Jan Adkins BOY WONDER Here is a nice, fat haddock. Hold the beggar by the tail and scrape forward, with the knifeblade at a right angle to the surface. The s

Here's how Tom Russell made his own snowshoes from natural materials and labored through several tries to construct a fancy bent-wood pair.

Wester attends the Focus: Shelters For Mankind Conference and met designers and builders who are working with the future of mankind, the environment and the planet.

You can profit, even establish a homestead business, by finding these buried riches and selling them to the folks who want them. Here's how to hunt for antique bottles and sell these finds. A boot strap business.

Here's some tips from Northwest Passage, a fortnightly journal on ecology, politics, the arts and good healthy livin'.

Here's how to make your garden of spider-webby, cauliflower like crystals in just a few hours with some ammonia, liquid bluing, food coloring, non-iodized table salt, water, six-inch dish and a brick of soft coal.

Homemade and handcrafted non-polluting vehicles and bicycles powered by steam.

Even if you live in the most out-of-the-way place in America you can make headlines - and good money - by working as a correspondent or stringer for a newspaper.

BACON, HAM AND SAUSAGE AT THE FUNK FARM November/December 1972 Home-smoked, mahogany-colored bacon, plump juicy hams, fresh spicy sausage and snowy lard are mostly nostalgic memories in this country today . . . but there's no reason why the time-honored art of curing and sm

Here's the second installment of Morton Salt's superior booklet, A Complete Guide To Home Meat Curing. Mother No. 17 told you how to butcher, halve and chill a hog. This section takes you most of the way through curing pork.

A Plowboy Interview with Ram Bux Singh who directed experiments at the Gobar (gobar is Hindi for cow dung') Gas Research Station at Ajitmal in northern India. His primary responsibility there has been the development of low-cost and simplified digesters designed to convert plant and animal waste into composted fertilizer and methane for fuel.

Mike Kiernan's energy report and national parks study.

Here's an article of mostly good ideas... a few just for fun tips... and some great old ads from the past.

More foraged fare from James E. Churchill. Here's how he finds, recognizes and prepares four wild food: highbush-cranberry, barberry, groundnut and chickweed.

One of the series of Ken Kern's book on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques, The Owner-Built Home and The Owner-Built Homestead. Kern talks about plant management of tree crops in this article.

Any homesteader who has an old 26 bicycle rim, some scrap wood and the usual odds and ends kicking around his workshop will find he can make himself a brand new bow saw for the price of the blade alone. Here's how.

feedback on:FIRE January/February 1973 Well, I suppose that E. Martini (Dear MOTHER NO. 16) is just suggesting, but not recommending, what everybody with a wood or coal stove shouldn't do but does anyway (if you're desperate, a few drops of white gas on the paper and a

feedback on: PIGS & PORK January/February 1973 The Pig Report in MOTHER NO. 17 was very good, and especially interesting to us because we've been raising hogs for about eight years . . . mostly to eat but occasionally even for profit. However, there's one point in the

Grow It! FRUIT January/February 1973 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play

Here's how you can save the environment by hunting polluters and profit by being awarded shares of fines levied against the wrongdoing corporations, with suggested steps for implementing the 1899 refuse act.

Feedback from Minnesota and Kentucky, on Mother #17 article on Building an Icehouse.

Growing some of the novel new midget vegetables in your garden next summer can give you a cash crop that will have practically no competitors. A boot strap business

The waterman's world seems to be held together by lines of all kinds. Special skill and confidence at securing, rigging, and making fast distinguish him from the landsman.

Learn how to grow and harvest onions, including which varieties keep longest and how best to store them.

Here's how to whip up a healthy French country cousin of vichyssoise. Read how to prepare Potage Bonne Femme, Potage Parisienne, Chicken Foot Soup, Basic Chicken Broth, Chicken Consomme, Cabbage Soup, Vichyssoise, Creme Caroline, Turnip Chowder, Green Sou

Advice from MOTHER's readers on getting rid of house fleas and ticks.

MOTHER lays out a design for building a round house at a small cost of $25.

Hawthorne Homestead January/February 1973 By jane musser AUGUST It's just about two years now since Mick and I first read Ed and Carolyn Robinson's Have-More Plan in MOTHER NO. 2, thought, That's nice, but we could never do it . . . and put the idea aside. We still weren

Feedback on MOTHER's Methane Maker in issue # 18.

How About a Corncob Pipe If you haven't kicked the habit of smoking yet, you could try doing it in a way that's cheaper than cigarettes: Try making a corncob pipe. January/February 1973 By John D. Meek True, nobody ought to smoke . . . but if you haven't kicked the habit yet, you could try doing i

I'm renting an old Finnish homestead near Nolalu, Ontario.

HOMESTEAD CHICKEN PRODUCTION January/February 1973 Back in 1949—before factory farming and the pump 'em full of chemicals school of agriculture blitzed the countrya fellow named Jack Widmer wrote a little book called PRACTICAL ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. Now that manual wasn't

HINTS FROM C.D. PREWITT January/February 1973 I notice that under Feedback on Buying Used Pickups (MOTHER NO. 17), Robert Stewart says that he uses a piece of emery cloth to brighten the contacts of his storage battery and give it longer life. He could also use a male-fema

Here are some sinus cures that work well for MOTHER's readers.

Another of Ken Kern's series on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. Kern talks about plant management with row crops in this series.

OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON January/February 1973 BY MIKE KIERNAN THE ENERGY CRISIS Tired of hearing about the energy crisis? Confused by corporate graphs which show consumption skyrocketing and resources plummeting? Well, so are we. But the warnings se

Another chapter from Dr. Holliday's A Herdsman's Handbook For The Modern Homesteader on the common sense control of internal parasites in ruminants: roundworms, tapeworms, flatworms or flukes; ruminant parasite detection; drastic and not so drastic para

Here's the third installment of Morton Salt's superior booklet, A Complete Guide To Home Meat Curing. MOTHER No. 18 told you how to cut and cure pork. This section takes you the rest of the way through preserving pork and into curing poultry.

A Plowboy Interview with Bill Coperthwaite, the founder of the non-profit Yurt Foundation.

apples January/February 1973 There are over a thousand apple varieties, which gives you plenty to choose from. A few well-tested varieties, such as Gravenstein, Golden Delicious, Grimes, Rome Beauty, and Yellow Transparent, should be the basic stock of your orchard, but try

Cherries January/February 1973 Cherries come in two types, sweet and sour. Sour cherries aren't often seen in the city, but they can't be beat for preserves, jam, pies, and the like. They are also hardier than the sweet varieties. In general, cherries will do well u

peaches January/February 1973 Peaches present the paradox that they'll grow in almost any part of the country, but can be grown well in very few. Still, the smallest peach from your own tree will be tastier than most store-bought ones, even though peaches ship better than man

pears January/February 1973 Pears, like peaches, need to be winter-chilled. In general, they can be grown in the same regions as apples and peaches. They are hardier than peaches, but they flower earlier than apple trees, so watch for chills. Areas of consistent zero-degree w

plums January/February 1973 Like most other temperate fruit, plums need to be winter-chilled in order to bear. They can be grown in just about any part of the United States where winter temperatures fall below 40°F. for a few weeks but not below—25°F. for the same period of t

A Plowboy Interview with author, educator, farmer and environmentalist activist — Wendell Berry.

feedback on AL and ALICE BLACK More negative feedback on Al and Alice Black in Tamagouche, Nova Scotia, issue # 19. March/April 1973 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors We own a farm In Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia and must sadly confirm your worst suspicions about Al Black. He sure has a reputation for wh

Back in the early 1940's — during a surge in do-it-yourself country living much like the groundswell we're now experiencing — some smarter-than-average people did just what their counterparts are doing today.

feedback on C.D. PREWITTS ARTICLE IN MOTHER N0.19 March/April 1973 I got very disturbed by C.D. Prewitt's article on electricity in MOTHER NO. 19. Electricity can kill . . . even a 1-1/2 volt D cell if it's applied just right. Shocks can cause death by fibrillation (a condition wh

My complete wind-driven electrical system consists of five main parts and the total cost was a little over $400.

Discover the secret of turning trash into tools, to get you started - here's a Garden Recycling List to glance at before you toss anything out.

The busy galley:the servant blade March/April 1973 by jan adkins a catcher-in-the-rye Given time, and given the aesthetic sensibilities of a hunger-crazed ape, you can carve out a joint of meat with a wooden shovel. But when you cook for joy and art, you need a tool that w

For all the folks who want to find out firsthand if decaying garbage will actually and truly and honestly and really produce burnable methane... here is Robert C. McMahon's modest experiment in methane gas production.

The Nomco Story Here's how the Morrells formed NOMCO (Nate and Onnalee Morrell Co./Nature's Own Method Co.) March/April 1973 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors There Nate and Onnalee Morrell were in the wet spring of 1969: a not-so-young couple (born 1924 and 1935) married just a year . . . and newly m

From Jack Widmer's Practical Animal Husbandry, here's an article on duck and goose production, breeding, feeding, home-grown goslings and ducklings, etc.

What's For Dinner? Bulgur! March/April 1973 By BETTY WARNER Very likely, you're already into whole wheat—as many of us are—because it's cheap, readily available almost anywhere; handy to store and versatile. If you like this gram as is, though, you may find th

F.P. Hughes comment on Grahame Caine's plans and his principles of design -conservation of resource, independence from wasteful, dirty public power and respect for natural ecosystems.

If you've been thinking of a move to fresher air and simpler living but can't see your way clear to buying your own piece of land, rural labor can give you many of the same satisfactions.

Here are some important tips to remember in choosing the animal and killing a beef.

This short article should give you some ideas about where to begin looking for tax savings.

Here are some highlights of NCVA's recommendations to redress complaints.

Grow It! March/April 1973 berries SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play

Here's another chapter of Dr. Holliday's manual for the modern homesteader on horses, practical reasons for horse ownership, and things to consider before buying your own horse.

A feedback on various articles about rabbits from the agricultural program representative of the Peace Corps

Back in Mother No, 18, we brought you the best of what we found while rummaging through some of the early farm publications. Here then - repeated by popular demand - are two more pages of that old-timey information taken from issues of the Ohio Practical

Here's the fourth installment of Morton Salts superior booklet, A Complete Guide To Home Meat Curing. This section tells you to how to cut and cure beef, veal and wild game.

One of the series of Ken Kern's book on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques, The Owner-Built Home and The Owner-Built Homestead. Kern talks about development goals in this article.

A Plowboy Interview with Dave Brower the founder of Friends of the Earth and League of Conservation Voters, and the Sierra Club's first Executive Director.

COUNTRY CATFISH: CHICKEN OF THE CHANNEL May/June 1973 by LEN AND KATHRYN SUE JONES Ever shuffled out of the house at four a.m. with a fishing pole over your shoulder? Nearly every country boy can remember at least one daybreak of rounding up cheese, angleworms, night

notes on mother no. 16 May/June 1973 by PATRICIA C. SPIER I noticed that in his letter in MOTHER NO. 16 (pg. 92) Chuck Boothby raised the question of intrusions by building inspectors, but didn't seem to realize why the regulations he resents were put into effect orig

Based on a stove built by New Tribes Mission missionaries.

...Vegetables May/June 1973 A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.—GOETHE For the small farmer, no single crop, area for area, will yield as much as the vegetable garden. When James N

Here's how the Matthew's solved the honeybees invasion one warm clear morning in the middle to May, and invented a homemade half-size hive for these buzzing tenants.

If you're not familiar with beekeeping, here's some basic information about the creatures.

The Busy Shore: block and tackle May/June 1973 by jan adkins a creatively lazy tinkerer In the matter of strength, a man's a puny creature. You cannot carry a deer in your jaw, you cannot fly two thousand milks or two feet on your own, cannot antl

The Organic Experimental Engine (oxen) May/June 1973 by JOHN R. SCARLETT Suppose someone told you that the Exxon Corporation (formerly Esso) had developed a farm vehicle as strong as a tractor but capable of going where no ordinary tractor can . . . through wa

Fly-tying, a method of securing various materials as furs, feathers and tinsels to a fishhook. Stuart Silverstein tells us basics of the craft of fly-tying: skills needed, materials, patterns, and selling your handicraft.

Ever wonder whether you could put the sun's energy to work for you where you live? Kenneth Whetzel, built a solar water heater, a very simple and streamlined equipment in Northern Ohio.

Here's another article from Jack Widmer's Practical Animal Husbandry. Widmer talks about turkey production in this issue: turkey breeds, poults, turkey feeds and sanitation.

Jenkins tells John Zoeller's success raising and marketing strawberries as a sideline. Two thousand dollars per acre with only average production, and double the money for exceptional results, that's what strawberries can do as cash crop.

Matthew's advice on stinging gnats: a handful of spearmint or lemon mint, squeezed and rubbed on sting prone areas.

A Scandinavian Treat...HARDTACK May/June 1973 DOKUS CUDDY The national heritage of many nations includes some delicious form of flatbread: the Mexican tortilla, Italian pizza chapati from India . . . and, here in northern Minnesota, the descendants of Scandina

Here's the last installment of Morton Salt's superior booklet, A Complete Guide To Home Meat Curing. MOTHER No. 20 took you through cutting and curing beef, veal and wild game. This final section tells you to cut a lamb carcass and how to keep cured meats

Further thoughts on A.C. vs. D.C. from C.D. Prewitt May/June 1973 MOTHER NO. 20 contained some feedback on my statements in NO. 19 about the advantages of direct over alternating current, and I'd like to offer a rebuttal that's based on my own experience . . . not on theory,

Mike Kiernan reports on rigid exhaust emission standards and the auto industry; and the Office of Management and Budget or OMB's elimination of an EPA division for its strident efforts to champion recycling in cities and industries.

Here's another article on old-timey information taken from issues of The New York Homestead and The American Agriculturist dated 1882, 1883 and 1893.

Proper mastication is important to the livestock's overall health and productiveness. The degree of development and the potential remaining usefulness of the creature being considered for purchase are often directly reflected by the animal's teeth. Dr. Ho

As one advances from house planning to actual building, he soon discovers that the design of a house cannot be divorced from its structural purpose. The 18th century sculptor, Horatio Greenough, recommended that man-made designs, like those found in nature, should follow the function of the structure. This form follows function concept implies that the actual beauty of a building is relative to the degree to which it meets the demands of its function. A home with a high degree of living efficiency is almost always esthetically pleasing.

Huckans shares his techniques easily adaptable by any urban, village or farm gardener who has only a shirttail-size plot at his or her disposal.

Lasher's hints that will make any berrying expedition easier and some elderberry recipes from her kitchen: Elderberry Jelly, Spiced Elderberries, Canned Elderberries, Frozen Elderberries, Elderberry Dumplings, Grandmother's Favorite Elderberry Pie, and El

Bob shares his Earth Haven, and his non-essential but handy bits of know-how on firewood, dump pickings, fireplaces, USDA, wood cookstove, moving animals, veterinarians, advice from other farmers, and the finer things in life. A Report From Them That's Do

THE HYDRAULIC RAM PUMP: PERPETUAL MOTION FOR THE HOMESTEAD July/August 1973 by BWILLIAM J. HEBERT Although water won't run uphill, some exceedingly clever soul discovered a long time ago that H 2 O can be persuaded to pump itself in that general direct

Here's the story of Everett G. Reid, one of the authors of subsistence farming and gardening articles in both the 30's and 40's, on his family and how they handled the depression and war years.

If weaving appeals to you, you may be glad to know that you can dispel your awe and discover the basic principles of the skill by building a very primitive device in your backyard.

FARM VACATIONS: The Farm Vacation Game is a provider of inspiration to city dwellers as well as a welcome source of income for their country cousins. July/August 1973 By Sarah Funk There was a time—not too long ago—when almost every city dweller had a country cousin (aunt, uncle, grandparent) li

Bob and Carol report about the local land situation in Northern Minnesota, and how they were able to purchase their 80-acre homestead, a small house, with outbuildings.A Report From Them That's Doin'

A feedback from Romayor, Texas on the Sencenbaugh's O2 Delight, and Jim's Sencenbaugh's reply on the feedback.

Lee tells us how to be free of the city and how to save for the cost of homesteading. Here's the Winchester's advise on saving enough homesteading money and how to budget to make your bankroll last.

How To Eat Well While You're Movin' On July/August 1973 by Nancy Bubel You're on your way from here to there—or perhaps living on the road for a stretch, so that home is here, wherever you are—or camping for fun or from need or for a chance to sort things out . .

One of the unusual and innovative structures erected by more than 100,000 campers for the 49th annual Old-Time Bluegrass Fiddlers Convention was the Umbrella, a clear plastic dome, over 20 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. Mike Turcot talks about how they built the six-dollar dome.

Report From 1918 Alberta & 1973 Arkansas July/August 1973  Issue # 22 - July/August 1973 Around the turn of the century my grandfather, Roy Wheeler, left the Chicago area with his family to homestead in Canada. The following letter, written to his Aunt Florence in Illinois, was just recently uncovered . .

55-gallon drums, five-gallon Blazo gas cans and Blazo shipping crates. Gary Brooks shares how these versatile objects can be put to so many good uses.

A 384-page paperback book for Bantam, the MOTHER EARTH NEWS ALMANAC is packed with tables, formulas, recipes, tips, hints, weather lore, wild food ideas, organic gardening information, land-finding methods, recycling projects, alternative power concepts, and all kinds of things. A few of the book's subjects are shown in this article to give you the tiniest idea of the wealth of knowledge crammed into the paperback.

Here's an excerpt on squab and guinea fowl production from Jack Widmer's book, Practical Animal Husbandry

Here's a monthly magazine that is meant to be useful to the commercial breeder and offers a wealth of information about large-scale apiary management and marketing.

Building a scarecrow with some real authority like Harold Blaisdell just might drive these feathered robbers away.

If you want to learn the art of canning - a subject that's covered briefly in MOTHER NO.10 - you can call on a wealth of excellent resources, here are some of MOTHER's suggestions of excellent paperbacks, bulletins, and guides on canning.

One of the series of Ken Kern's book on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques, The Owner-Built Home and The Owner-Built Homestead. Kern talks about woodland in this article.

A Plowboy Interview with Steve and Holly Baer who showed the world that very inexpensive dome housing could be fabricated from the tops of junked automobiles.

Short articles on science, Dr. Franz Pick, The Ralph Nader-Backed Health Research Group of Washington, fuel shortage, Dr. D.P. Davies, and Oregon's Governor Tom McCall.

The Gentle Art of Hunkering Hunkering is the squatting-on-the-haunches posture assumed by many country folks outdoors, especially when there's something serious to discuss or ponder. Bill tells us about the art of hunkering beyond its being a physical posture. July/August 1973 By Bill Wodraska Longha

Grow it July/August 1973 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play around with

Here is more of the old-timey information taken from issues of Successful Farming and The Farm Journal dated 1898 to 1908.

Feedback from issue # 22 article Grow It by Richard Laner on raising goats.

getting in touch...converting an old toy into a new tool September/October 1973 by COPTHORNE MACDONALD It's happening. People leaving the urban/suburban sprawl. People moving to the country. Decentralization. Going back to the land. Whatever we call it, it's s

Night soil must be mixed with material that is high in cellulose or carbon in order to compost effectively and efficiently.

MOVE A HOUSE AND September/October 1973 by KIETH W. JOHNSON Our North Dakota homestead is just ten miles from the Canadian line and, when we moved in, there was no house on the small farm. We needed a residence that would withstand those long, se

Raising and breeding sheep.

Feedback on living the good life from Myrtle Cress.

Cows' colostrum offers a full range of natural antibodies that both prevent and cure infection.

This new work The Sensuous Gadgeteer is one how-to manual that starts at ground level with which tool is which, what it's for and exactly how to use it.

the pumpkin ...a challenge to creative cooking September/October 1973 by BARBARA BAMBINGER We may well have had the smallest pumpkin patch in Quebec last fall ... but even so, its productivity overwhelmed us. We'd never grown the crop before and hadn't expect

Rammed earth construction has been well known in Europe for centuries.

Preparing the right kind of soil, a proper foundation, good walls and the best finishing is the way to build a rammed earth house.

WANT A $15,000 HOME... FOR ONLY $6,000? September/October 1973 Even on a modest income, you can have a house of your own ... this article proves it. by JOHN O. McMEEKIN This article, which appeared in the May 1950 Coronet, is copyright © by Esquire lnc. and is repri

Every part of the country has some economic factor that furnishes part-time work. No matter how much of your own food and other essentials of life you produce yourself, you're still going to need some cash and finding part-time work is often the best opti

HOW TO RAISE EARTHWORMS (FOR FUN AND PROFIT) September/October 1973 by SHIRLEY EWEN The earthworm-once regarded as a mere creepy-crawler found on the road after a nice soft rain-has risen in status. This underground creature now often dwells in bins, barrels,

Learn how to make apple butter for a fun seasonal project.

From Practical Animal Husbandry by Jack Widmer.

FEEDBACK on C.D. PREWITT September/October 1973 I just had to answer C.D. Prewitt's remarks on electricity (MOTHER NO. 21, pg. 86). My major gripe is that some people may assume that because he's done some foolish things unharmed, they may do the same and survive.

Netting and knitting is the most efficient way to turn fiber into fabric. It is a good concept for a source of extra money.

Netting . . . holes tied together with string September/October 1973 by F.P. HUGHES Hats off, everyone, to the stone-age technician who invented the net ... a perfect example of just a little material used in exactly the right way to do a job well. A simpler soluti

Extra money by knitting. A bootstrap business.

Here's how bottles are cut for use as drinking glasses.

Moisture content of honey varies according to location when you prepare jams and jellies with natural sweetening. Many honey recipes

THE OWNER- BUILT HOME& HOMESTEAD September/October 1973 Copyright 1972 by Ken Kern, reprinted by permission. THE OWNER-BUILT HOME, VOLUME 2, CHAPTER 4 MASONRY BLOCK AND BRICK by KEN KERN Ken Kern, author of THE OWNER-BUILT HOME and THE

A Plowboy Interview with L. John Fry designer of abaerobic digesters.

Here are short articles on the North American Bison, E.B. Weiss, additives, western sheep ranchers, catalytic converter, David Large.

The population of cats and dogs is overrunning United States.U.S. officials and experts are looking for the best possible ways to degrade these prolific birthrates.

Grow It September/October 1973 SPECIAL NOTE. GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years to play aroun

Apples are fine fruit in just about every way. You can pickle apples, freeze them, dry them, make them into jam, jelly, and applesauce or just about anything and they taste good mixed with other fruit.

E.B. WEISS September/October 1973 O ne of the advertising industry's most influential spokesmen, has given the unlimited growth segment of his profession a bitter pill to swallow. Far from being a temporary situation that we will pass through quickly, he says, today's ener

WESTERN SHEEP RANCHERS September/October 1973

WESTERN SHEEP RANCHERS September/October 1973 Who illegally hire helicopters to hunt down golden eagles should know that, according to Kenya (Africa) biologist Dr. Leslie Brown, There is massive, solid evidence that golden eagles pose no threat to sheep operations. Indeed, the

THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER September/October 1973 Only recently endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency as an automobile pollution control, may itself be a health hazard. Platinum and palladium particles from the device, it is feared, can pour from a car's exhaust and

DAVID LARGE September/October 1973 An electrical engineer, has edited a book called Hidden Waste, Potentials for Energy Conservation. The manual is intended primarily for people who already have some knowledge of energy matters (it is somewhat technical) and summarizes r

You can with a little patience, a few tools, not a great deal of money and even less skill - make a sheepskin coat that will be both luxuriously warm and your very own work of art.

Hand-lettering is easy to learn, worth money, and takes us back a little way toward the days when folks took pride in the graphic arts.

Grow it! Grain November/December 1973 SPECIAL NOTE: GROW IT! is a big book and even if a chunk this size were to be run in issue after issue after issue of MOTHER, it would take over two years to put the complete volume in your hands. If you haven't got two years

Here is some feedback from New York, Mass. and Ind. on David Brower's interview and nuclear energy.

SUET PUDDINGS Subsistence food November/December 1973 Suet Mix For Puddings Steak and Kidney Pudding Bacon Pudding Suet Dumplings Plain Suet Patties BILL JOHNSTON Suet—the hard fat around beef kidne

Feedback on Turkeys November/December 1973 DEAR MOTHER: The chapter on Turkey Production from Jack Widmer's Practical Animal Husbandry (MOTHER NO. 21) was so misleading that it undermined the whole issue. What good is a how-to publication that tells how t

Here's a feedback from Acampo California on raising guinea fowls from the Practical Animal Husbandry

High real estate prices are one of the biggest deterrents to people who would like to go back to the land. Acreage is already expensive in any established farming or ranching area...and expanding urbanization, vacation developments and outright speculatio

Ever admire an old house covered with weathered shakes...those long shingles old-timers used to split from logs? Well, if you're reasonably good with tools, you can make the same kind of roofing for your own buildings.

Nothing says holiday like mince pies...especially if you make the filling yourself.

Toys especially the homemade kind have a special fascination around Christmas. If the seasonal bug is biting you, Workman Publishing Company has just what you need: a fat paperback full of low-cost, do-it-yourself playthings to be made for, with or by chi

ALTERNATIVE November/December 1973 One frustration of pushing for social change or the preservation of our environment is that all the computers sometimes seem to belong to the other side. The concerned citizen may have a very strong suspicion that the facts and figures i

HOME-BAKED BREAD FROM POTATO WATER STARTER November/December 1973 By Miriam Bunce by MIRIAM BUNCE In the good old days on the farm, all the bread was made at home for two reasons: First, it was cheaper (it still is...the cost today is about 10¢ per loaf) and second, rural folks couldn't go to

WITH ALL THE TRIMMIN's November/December 1973 by SCOT ROBINSON My wife Nancy, our son Matthew Ian and I are vegetarians, and as such we've often been asked, What do you do on Thanksgiving and Christmas if you can't eat turkey? Well, like everyone els

Here's another old-timey information taken from issues of THE FARM JOURNAL and SUCCESSFUL FARMING dated 1902, 1907, and 1908.

WATER POWER! November/December 1973 (YE OLD WATER WHEEL — FOR A BOUNTIFUL OF ENERGY) The old water wheel—used in the United States for grinding grains and producing energy at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution—has declined in popularity since this country's

The Parsonage Hill Methane Plant Hear a little bit about two knowledgeable men, Alton Eliason and Joe Pellicio, two energetic inventors who joined forces to build a methane generator of their own design in Al's backyard. November/December 1973 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors As this special secti

FLASHES...ENERGY FLASHES...ENERGY November/December 1973 By the MOTHER EARTH NEWS editors WHAT HAPPENS IS THE TWIRLING BLADES tell a variable-pitch motor how fast they're going and then it feeds back processed electronic signals that automatically shift the pitch of the propeller as the wind speed r

THE ANSWER IS BLOWIN' IN THE WIND November/December 1973 by James B. DeKorne A little over a year ago, I wrote a short article for Organic Gardening and Farming magazine. In that piece, I described our life on a small New Mexico homestead ... and how we planne

Here are a few suggestions on utilizing the natural power of the stovepipe: as radiant heater, double-stove, convenient hot water supply, oven in a stovepipe, concentric double stovepipe and a small steam engine.

After more than a year of setbacks, MOTHER's methane maker is now in production, with Dick Shuttleworth's new design and rebuilding of the biogas unit.

Here's a short update on Henry Clew, his miraculous wind-powered homestead, and his brand new business: a booklet on wind-driven generator.

The Future Has Arrived November/December 1973 The following editorial was written by John N. Cole (Editor, Maine Times, 13 Main Street, Topsham, Maine 04086) and is reprinted with permission. Maine Times, a weekly newspaper, contains succinct, hard-hitting TRUE articles and

NOTES FROM AN OLD HOUSE...WARM BEDS November/December 1973 by Elizabeth Cool in summer and cold in winter, our old house is somewhat of a challenge to heat , . . but we try always to have warm beds. There's nothing like shivering at night to make you worthless the next day.

The Owner-Built Home and Homestead November/December 1973 KENKERN THE OWNER-BUILT HOME, VOLUME 4, CHAPTER 1 PLUMBING Unfortunately, far too many owner-builders resist the idea of installing their own plumbing and wiring. These amateurs somehow blund

Here's an update on TWMEW The Whole Mother Earth Waterworks' letter in MOTHER NO. 21 from Edward Barberie.

Corporations and childcare, paper as protein-rich food supplement, government regulation of land, and nuclear explosions.

Here are some of Shona Bentley's farm tips from Minnesota, Crackling Cookies recipe for you to try with your cracklings; and making a batch of your own pure white soap from excess pork drippings/grease: Granny's Homemade Soap.

Copthorne Macdonald tells us about possibility of dialogue-at-a-distance via your own personal communication system; and about New Directions Radio. A ham radio program.

A Plowboy Interview with Marcellus Jacobs, who almost singlehandedly invented the first practical wind-powered electrical generating system.

Here's another article from Dr. Holliday's new handbook. This section will discuss briefly some of the things a new horse owner needs to know right now to avoid many of the dangers besetting him and his acquisition.

Alternative Energy November/December 1973 This solar oven was developed at the University of Florida, Gainesville, under the direction of Dr. E.A. Farber. This windmill was patented in 1924 by W.M. Riggs of Arizona for driving pumps used in irrigation. Th

THE NEWSPAPER YOU READ TODAY MAY BE YOUR FOOD TOMORROW November/December 1973 THE NEWSPAPER YOU READ TODAY MAY BE YOUR FOOD TOMORROW , according to a Denver University microbiologist. Dr. Brooks D. Church says that fungi can turn discarded paper into a protein-rich food supplement

GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF LAND November/December 1973 GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF LAND , the United States' most basic resource, is gathering momentum from Washington officials. Congress, backed by the Nixon administration, is trying to establish measures that could affect milli

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS November/December 1973 NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS may be used to blast away sections of the Kra Isthmus canal across Thailand... a proposed shortcut for 500,000-ton tankers carrying oil from the Middle East to Japan. An estimated 34,000 million cubic yards of eart

MOTHER's Methane Maker Meets The Media November/December 1973 Now the only trouble with this digester was the fact that the fellow who spent so much time telling everyone what a great welder he was . . . really wasn't at all. The digestion unit—and its water jacket—leaked lik

MOTHER's Methane Maker Meets The Media November/December 1973 On November 2, 1973 a press conference was held on the Shuttleworth farm in Indiana. Representatives of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Farm Journal, Prairie Farmer, Rolling Stone, Earth News, the Associa

Sun-powered space heaters, stills, pumps and sewage treatment plants. Solar-driven refrigerators, air conditioners, engines, stoves and cars. They're successfully harnessing the sun to these and other devices at the University of Florida.

Southern mountain heritage from Eliot Wigginton and crew, here's an article excerpted from the book FoxFire 2 by the Southern Highlands Literary Fund, Inc., and Brooks Eliot Wigginton.

One aim of solar scientists is to provide a means of cooking for those countries in which fuel is scarce or expensive.

Here's a way to cut firewood that not only increases productivity on a cords-per-day basis, but makes the job easier too.

Try these tasty, nutritious cereal grain recipes: Boiled Bulgur, Bulgur Stuffed Peppers, Bulgur Swedish Cabbage Rolls, Bulgur Jambalaya, and Scotch Broth With Bulgur.

MOTHER's METHANEMAKER: January/February 1974 Past, Present and Future John Suttleworth, Editor and Publisher, The MOTHER EARTH NEWS Thanks to a brief paragraph which appeared in Mechanix Illustrated , I first became aware that a burnable fuel c

Methane fuel pollutes very little, but it takes much more methane than gasoline to operate a vehicle. We are constructing prototype methane bugs, ultra-small, ultra-light cars designed to operate on our own homemade methane bio-fuel.

maple syrup....the cool way January/February 1974 by: George R. Lightsey I've always thought of thick, golden maple syrup as one of the truly natural foods ... even though I never tasted the real thing until the spring of 1971. At that time my wife and I we

Make your own hours; work at your own pace by transcribing notes for court reporters.

Here's some of MOTHER's readers feedback on Copthorne Macdonald's article Getting in Touch.

Mulder and Woolan share their secret on sexing chicks.

Here are some alternative methods of animal birth control not mentioned in Mike Kiernan's article on the problems of expanding pet population.

A Dutchman shares suggestions, hints and tips on being self-sufficient. A Report From Them That's Doin'

Here's a feedback on Robin Rye's Life With The Woolies. Michael and Marylee Satren share a few points of advice based on personal experience with both commercial and purebred farm flocks in Minnesota, Wisconsin and California.

Here's a report from a twelve year old on a homestead in Vermont. A Report From Them That's Doin'

TORNADOES can strike - and have struck - communities in every section of the continental United States and in many areas of Canada and the rest of the world. These mose violent storms of nature do, however, occur more frequently in the central section of the U.S. and during the months of april, May and June.

A Plowboy Interview with William Ophuls whose 1973 Ph.D. dissertation was on the management of political, social and economic problems arising from the environmental crisis..

Short articles on the North American bison, human burials and cremation, Singapore, Onduline, man as endangered species, TV violence, The Food Action Campaign, life for prehistoric man, sales tax savings, W.W. Keeler, Seeds of Change, and the Environmental Action Bulletin.

John and Sally Seymour's record of 18 successful years on a shirttail-sized homestead in England should offer welcome encouragement to today's back-to-the-landers... both real and imaginary. Here's the first article from the Seymour's book on Self-Sufficiency.

For those who have plans to study for ham licenses, here's Macdonald's review of available instruction material for the code and theory portions of the tests, in the hope that this information will help get that permit a little faster.

Here are some short articles on Archimedes' Burning Glass, Nicolaus Laing, Grahame Caine, and the Independent Power Developers alternative energy firm.

Light and Color - The owner-builder should choose colors with his overall design in mind. Here's another article from Ken Kern's The Owner-Built Home and The Owner-Built Homestead

The Food Action Campaign January/February 1974 THE FOOD ACTION CAMPAIGN--a creation of the Agribusiness Accountability Project, New Populist Action and Center on Corporate Responsibility--says that consumers can't afford to grow today's crops . . . but that the corporations in

Here are some possibilities for bringing hot water to your homestead.

Here's another chapter on the larder from Richard W. Langer's Grow It!, a 365- page book that introduces a beginner to small-scale farming.

Even with modern medicines, chickens can still get sick. Here are remedies that use simple, cheap, and easily available ingredients.

How MOTHER EARTH NEWS article no. 12 helped us buy a used pickup truck at auction. A Report From Them That's Doin'

Kit building can be a good way to provide yourself with a ham radio rig.

If we wish to grow food on a larger scale, then there are three things we can do effectively. One is to buy an agricultural tractor. The other is going in for one of those little garden cultivators: either a rotovator or a mini-plough. The third is to plough by horse.

Knowing how not to do something wrong is as valuable as knowing how to do it right.

A grassroots immigration service.

Tips and advice in walking in Rattle-infested areas.

To find your own local sources of lumber, windows and whatever, keep an eye on the classified section of the newspaper. There are always barns to be torn down or private houses going cheap.

Feedback on on #23, Homestead Hog Production.

A bootstrap business.

This car is powered by a DC electric motor, its batteries are charged by a wind-driven generator, a parabolic collector focuses the sun's rays enough to heat water and produce steam vapor, and the steam operates an engine that runs an electrical generator.

A Plowboy Interview with Borsodi who is chiefly known for his practical and highly successful experiments in self-sufficient living during the 1920's and 30's, and for the books he has written about those experiments.

The Larder March/April 1974 MAKING CHEESE Most of what you grow in a time of plenty can be stored as surplus for future use in bleaker days. But what about milk? Refrigeration will hold it for two weeks, but not longer effectively. And the ancient tiller of the soil had no re

Here are short articles on the Kellogg-Briand pact, Farm Brigades, Paul A. Samuelson, J.J. Hidore's worldwide catastrophe and turmoil prediction, George Orwell's Chilling 1948 Novel, and real wealth.

Randy Brink (WA7BKR) and Bob Hickerson (WA6RRR)-two fellows who've been communicating seriously via ham radio for some time now recently started a West Coast section of the Roundtable.

On using salvage materials.

How to make blood sausage.

Here are short tips on V-8 engines, electrical energy consumption, geothermal energy, the fuel of the future, an ammonia-powered car and a wind-driven heat pump.

Energy shortages appear, as a big question about the interaction of energy and environment are raised in legislatures and parliaments, and as energy-related inflation dominates public concern, many are beginning to see that there is a unity of the single system of energy, ecology, and economics.

Energy costs much to the living world that comprises every aspects of making a life worthwhile. Economic development and its stability show how one's nation has distributed its energy as to amplifying them for industrial purposes and for its independent survival. Risk comes when there is energy shortage and excess.

Here you will learn how to make a wine out of berries by picking a nice plump of berries and stripping them from their stem. After straining off the juices then mixing it with some ingredients and do a certain process or steps a wine is produced.

This diary tells about an experience of planting tomatoes at a contrary time and conditions to follow with. Much consideration is to take place in order to have a good harvest of tomatoes that is the right time and the place where you want to plant. Good fertilizers and treatment chemicals for pesticides is probably a nice bred for tomatoes as foreseen in by this diary.

This story tells about how William Earwood managed to have a simple way of living or a simple life and surpasses all those difficulties and hard times of his life together with his family. He learned how to scrounge just to be able to support his family. It was his own try of simple living and a matter of survival experience.

Framing flowers for funds has made Eartha to become a real business doer. She began her handcraft with flowers pressed and framed them into a nice arrangement that soon grew into a source of gifts, by giving them to her friends and relatives on all occasions. Then she began marketing her craft into a community store where others welcomed and liked it. With her imagination and creativeness her genuine local handcraft has sold itself.

A Cow is a very gentle, beautiful creature that you can derive much use from. For farmers it provides good fertilizer, wherein cows can flogged a nitrogenous fertilizer on an acre of grassland. And in the summer a cow will live, on grass and grass alone, and give you plenty of milk. Thus the cow is a good product for your self-sufficiency farming.

Pigs are not easy to handle as what Bob experiences for the first time. He said that hogs are the hardest of all homestead animals to fence in and small pigs are especially difficult to hold. Major undertaking and frustrations was his greatest reward of experience.

Wilhelm gets most of her laundry washing through scrubboard wherein it does a superior job on cleaning that takes only a fair amount of her energy. It made the whole thing easier for her by taking steps and considerations that she thought to be necessary. The scrubboard according to her is one of the least expensive and most workable investments that you can make.

Here the relevant problem about the S-rotor was mentioned regarding its operation and failure to operate. Involving more about its structural design and functionality. It also tells about how the S-rotor plant power delivers its capability as device of generating a power.

HOME GARDEN's EXPERTS DESIGN A VEGETABLE MINI-GARDEN FOR $10 May/June 1974 No, you don't need a couple of acres-or a small fortune in seeds, plants and tools—to grow a healthy patch of garden truck. Back in 1970, the staff of Home Garden magazine set out to demonstrate that fact . . .

COWS & COOKING & CRAFTS . . . B J O's WAY May/June 1974 I just recently discovered THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS ® when I made a cross-country trip to Ohio, MOTHER's birthplace. Since then, I've ordered all the back issues and have been joyously reading MOM first thing when I wake i

Comfrey is a member of the borage family a strong-growing perennial with somewhat hairy leaves 12 to 18 inches long, rising on short stems from a central crown. Comfrey has six uses that are as a vegetable, a tea, a healing herb, as feeds for critters, a compost activator, and a soil conditioner.

The only way to really sex chickens is to let them hatch first and then sort the males from the females. And as to Lyle Scheline a professional chicken sexer, an expert of 22 years experience uses a method called vent sexing a technique

A yurt is an ancient shelter and an excellent workshop.

Tired of shelling out your life savings every time you want to do a little trucking? A proven alternative producer gas may be the right answer for you.

THE BORSODI CONSTANT AN INFLATION-FREE CURRENCY May/June 1974 Dr. Ralph Borsodi (see the Plowboy Interview in MOTHER NO. 26) is chiefly famous for his successful experiments in self-sufficient living. There's another side to the man, however, that is of increasing importance in th

The big chemical manufacturers would dearly love to have us believe that insect pests can be controlled only through the use of their poisonous sprays and dusts. Well, as any organic gardener can tell you, that's simply not true. You can control and repel harmful insects in a number of natural ways including, to name only a few: companion planting, natural repellents, intoxicants, predator insects, birds, poultry, reptiles and small animals.

Here are short articles on soaring food prices, India on the brink of disaster, DES (Diethylstilbestrol), the pencil and paper diet, and pure oil of cinnamon.

New directions radio shares its related number of encounters in communication networks from among alternatives-minded people. One of which is the ham radio and basically the simple transmission of facts that alternatives community contains hundreds of thousands of people who have already done a lot toward searching out new values and seeking new directions for their lives. Thus permitting individuals not only to tell their stories to a distant group, but also to answer questions from that group as well.

GAMBLE FOR YOUR HOMESTEAD FRONT MONEY May/June 1974 by MRS. W.G. McCUSKER With some capital, a lot of work and a little gambling on the real estate market, you can get out of the city hassle a lot faster than you think. The secret? Buy and remodel an old house, sell

Predictions, expectations and situations about energy are what this story tells about. Shortage on oil in U.S. and probability of oil spills in the Gulf of Alaska is said to worsen. Environmental energies founded in Detroit, Michigan and methane powered car discovered by experimenters are said to developed.

Here Poppy George share his experience and on the care of homestead livestock. He gives his idea on how to feed a sows and the problems regarding their behavior. George also mentioned here some suggestions and answers to many question regarding about problems in raising a livestock.

The Plow, a basic tool of the farmer and large-scale gardener , breaks and pulverizes the ground, adding humus, fertility by covering the vegetation and manure. Plowing helps the soil hold its precious moisture and circulates the air. Although plow tools are difficult to obtain, if you have enough interest they can easily be acquired.

Hardwood chips are now driving the first solid-fuel trucks to appear on American Highways.

Producer Gas Vehicles May/June 1974 producer gas vehicles: world war II, england producer gas vehicles: world war II, germany Dear MOTHER: In MOTHER N0. 25, C. and T. Martin asked about powering cars with gas generated from solid fue

The five diagrams in the image gallery illustrate the most widely used types of producer gas generator. As you can see, the devices differ in location of air intake and gas outlet ...and consequently in the direction of draft. The crossdraft model at far left is e

If you're looking to buy land in the country, finding the right real estate agent can be tricky. Which is why Les Scher has written Real Estate Agents, Realtors, and Salesmen to help you separate good agents from bad apples and deal with the latter. Check out this excerpt from Real Estate Agents, Realtors, and Salesmen, (Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1974).

Here's a short report on the progress being made on THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS Alternative Energy Vehicle known as the SHUTTLEBUG.

Marj Watkins passes on some health hints that work for her family. Here her health tip on aches and pains; and the measures the Watkins family used to cope with them.

Back last fall - when MOTHER still had a sister publication - LIFESTYLE! published two articles on homesteading in the new Central American nation of Belize (formerly British Honduras). One result was the following comments by Roger Smith, which we're passing on for the information of anyone who's thinking of emigration to that little-known country.

Report from Durango Colorado July/August 1974 Dear MOTHER: A very dear friend-a retired college president-gave me his back copies of MOTHER . A gift of life! Where have you been? Where have I been? I'm deeply moved to learn of the depth and magnitude of longing fe

Folks who strike out into the wilderness- where running water is unknown - quickly discover that every cupful must be put to many tasks before its final return to nature. Here's Ruth Tordoff's homemade shower design that gave a satisfying wash from less than three gallons, and catches those three gallons to be recycled for other important jobs.

One of the oldest professions in the civilized world is the collection and preparation of wild plants for use as drugs, special foods or home remedies. James E. Churchill tells us how to become a wildcrafter and all about wildcrafting.

Herb companies are flourishing as the demand for crude botanicals increases... and more and more people are taking to the fields and forests in search of health-giving herbs, barks, and roots for themselves and others. Here's Douglas Elliot's article on conscientious herb gathering.

If you want to raise your own food, you can... even if the soil you have to work with is poor or non-existent. Time and waste material can help any gardener rebuild his land's barren spots.

Paul Snizek shares how they made butter during the World War II using a homemade machine, a wooden hand-cranked churn.

John Boll reports on the calculated values for the amount of power produced by the S-rotor

If you really want to help Keep America Beautiful . . . learn the house-painting business! You'll find, as I did, that the venture can bring you a good income and many fringe benefits: outdoor work, varied location, a choice of hours and plenty of chances to meet new and interesting people. You'll also have the satisfaction of performing a valuable service. A home, after all, is a lifetime investment, which its owner wants to protect.

Here are some house painting hints from Donald W Geary.

Little George Heath talks about sheep and herding in this article.

Here's additional information for others who have found themselves unable to split shakes using Simonson's technique, or unable to buy high quality timbers for only a few bucks apiece.

Ah, the joys of homemade peanut butter! It is far superior to any peanut butter found in a jar on grocery store shelves, and far less expensive too. Here's how to make it.

The bug, (the old-time term for a sort of simplified lantern) is definitely a more-for-less item. If you're operating on a shoestring budget, why not make one and try it out before you spend money on more conventional, elaborate and expensive light-producing conveniences? The bug is definitely a more-for-less item.

Practical Solar Power: Steve Baer's Done 'Er Again! July/August 1974 [1] The Solar Heater Plans are complete, working blueprints for assembling a water heater/solar shower. Direct systems and antifreeze systems, copper or steel collectors and other construction choices are thoroughly explained right on the desig