Description
Contents: Gearing Up For The Spring Garden – American Intensive Solar Gardening (Nearly twenty years ago, Leandre and Gretchen Poisson resolved to 1) homestead on top of a small mountain in New Hampshire and 2) eat fresh produce year-round regardless of the weather and at minimal expense. Now, they share the plans for two custom solar appliances that allowed them to do it); All-America Seed Selections For 1995 (This year’s gold medal winners are three outstanding flower cultivars perfect for adding color to the vegetable garden); Plant An Heirloom Vegetable Bed (A deep-dug bed of perennials like strawberries and asparagus, with plantings of rhubarb and horseradish will feed you and yours for more than a generation); Who’s Making The New Vegetables (Cross-pollinating plants we eat is certainly nothing new, but advanced genetic engineering has made the process far quicker, and more worrisome) Garden & Yard – The Survivor’s Guide To Farm Chemicals (Life next to a large commercial farm or orchard can be troubling to those who want to keep pesticides at arm’s length. Robert Houghton offers some first-hand advice on how to stay in the clear) Country Skills – “I Built A 24′ x 50′ Pole Barn For Under $3000” (Ellen Franklin wasn’t going to let just being a grandmother keep her from designing and building her own barn. And if she can do it…) Backcountry Skills – Small Woodlot Management (You can maximize both the beauty and productivity of even the smallest of tree stands with David Israel’s techniques); Guide To The Foresters Of The U.S. (They’re here to help, so find yours and tap the well of knowledge); Commin North American Tree Varieties (From seeding to harvest, a guide to twelve classic beauties) Country Song – A Festival Of Life (Every spring, North Carolina’s quiet community of Wilkesboro is visited by thousands of fans, young and old, hungry for the high lonesome sound of bluegrass. Joel Bourne joins the pilgrimage) MOTHERS Natural Kitchen – The Almost Perfect Food (Beans are packed with protein, fiber, vitamins and versality) Regular Columns – News From MOTHER (A new generation of cold framing); Dear MOTHER (One reader suggests that frenzied hand-wringing about overpopulation is just not warrantied. Will we run out of room?); Country Lore (Making the most of old tires, and keeping the temperature down when handling hot peppers); Bits & Pieces (Recycling fish for fertilizer, and a help wanted notice from the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta); Seasonal Almanac (Introducing a few heralds of spring that you might not be familiar with, and astronomers be warned: Mars is getting larger); Energy Tips (Both expert architects and novice builders alike should learn from the “too much glass” passive solar designs of the ’70s and ’80s); Herbs And Old-Time Remedies (The wonders of alfalfa, slippery elm, and “nature’s penicillin”, garlic); Country Vet (Administering immediate first aid for a farm animal in the critical moments after an injury could very well save its life); Last Laugh (William Chapin has owned many dogs in his seventy-five years, and many of those faithful friends were more than a bit particular)
Issue: February – March 1995
Condition: Very Good