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| September / October 1986 |
Garden And Yard - Gallup On Gardening (The result of the great bean poll); All About Green Manure Crops (How to tell vetch is vetch); Compost (Mother's "soul food" cookbook); The Composter's Cuisinart (A guide to garden shredder/chipper/grinders) Home Cooking - A Natural Labor Day Picnic (Fresh air and fresh foods, it's a "Labor" of love) Country Skills - Cream Of The Country (A new series describing great locations for your country house); A Simplified Site Survey (Plot that plat prior to purchasing) Backcountry - Wapiti (The monarch of the west) Home - Superinsulation For Everyone (The "thermos bottle" home comes of age); Mother's Low Cost Housing Contest: Winner Three (The Mason family's $3.55 per square foot home); Landscaping For Wildlife Habitat (It's for the birds...and mammals, and reptiles, and...) Workshop - Mother's Children (A basic, boy-built minibike); A Dollhouse For Would-Be Country Kids (Playing the fields); Mother's Bicycle Wind Trainer (Keeing fit by going nowhere) And More - Pet Concerns (Antifreeze, the palatable poison); Conversations With Mother (The Worldwatch Institute's Lester Brown) Regular Features - News From Mother (Future talk); Dear Mother (She gets letters); Bits And Pieces (A roundup of relevant news); Country Lore (Down-home wisdom from your fellow readers); Barters And Bootstraps (Home businesses and neighborly exchanges); Ask Our Experts (No-cost consultations); Seasons Of The Garden (The cutting edge in horticultural research); The Backyard Jungle (Controlling the corn earworm); Mother's Herb Garden (Flavorings and folk remedies); Mom's Marketplace; Access; The Last Laugh (Back by popular demand) |
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| May / June 1987 |
Garden And Yard - The Kitchen Garden (Make mine 'matters"); Market Gardening (Turning the soil, turning a profit); Deep Mulch (At last, a cover-up without guilt) Mother's Kitchen - Fixing Fish Without Fear (Easy does it, and it's easy) Country Skills - Taking On Livestock, Part II (Going 'whole hog', etc) Backcountry - The Nature Of Wildlife Photography (Shutter after buffalo); A Beginner's Guide To Fishing (Don't spare the rod) Home - The Esoteric Art Of Splitting Shingles (Getting the shakes) Workshop - Turn A Window Into A Door (A how-to saga, starring Dennis Burkholder) Environment - Life After Chernobyl (A year-long struggle on a Swedish farm) And More - Farm Aid Founder Willie Nelson (The old rebel's keeping his eye on the money); An Automotive "Summerization" (Before you take your wheels afield); Listen To Your Mother (Radio daze) Regular Features - News From Mother (Tech talk); Dear Mother (Letters entertain you); Country Lore (Down-home wisdom from your fellow readers); Earth Diary (News from our nest); Seasons Of The Garden (The facts of foliar feeding); Bits & Pieces (A roundup of relevant news); Ask Our Experts (No-Cost consultations); Pet Concerns (Keep your pet from going to the dogs); Shop Short (All screwed up); Barters & Bootstraps (Home businesses and neighborly exchanges); Mom's Marketplace (MOTHER's choice); Classified; Access (Volumes of information); The Last Laugh (Gelt from the North Country |
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| October / November 1994 |
MOTHER's Hearth Special - A New Generation Of Fireplaces (Modern "old-fashioned" fireplace designs are no longer under the thumb of the EPA and have finally escaped their reputation as expensive wood wasters. Here's how to get yours); A Connoisseur's Guide To Firewood (Whether you want a quick burn to warm up in the morning or a steady glow through the night, Gail Damerow's complete guide will show you the best fuel); 1994 Wood Stove Update (Though still smarting from the Fed's control of the wood stove industry, John Vivian finds some good news and new models to cheer about); Wood Stacking (From Shaker rounds to ricks, how to pile it on for the best seasoning) Garden & Yard - Scorzonera, Salsify, and Celtuce (Three unusual candidates for early spring planting, including, would you believe...vegetable oysters?); The Sleeping Garden (Will cover crops make next spring's garden a banner one? How late into the thaw should you mulch? Jeff Taylor provides the answers); Mini-Guide To Beneficial Insects (What's a mealybug's worst enemy? Hint: Your praying mantis won't help) Energy & Envoironment - Living Off The Grid, Part IV: Catching The Wind (It's windy outside, but what's the use when turbines are expensive, noisy maintenance hogs? Laurie Stone reports otherwise and describes what might be the most cost-effective off-grid power yet) MOTHER's Natural Kitchen - Too Much Squash? (Pumpkin, acorn, buttercup, and butternut squashes can make lots more than soup. Anne Vassal provides recipes for these seasonal favorites); A Season Of Wild Game (If you've never had venison chili, you're missing one of fall's best dishes) Country Skills - The King Of Knots: How To Tie The Bowline (Master the bowline and learn the basic principles of know tying); On The Cutting Edge: Basic Knife Sharpening (Keen blades defined "high tech" for thousands of years. How to keep your edges at their best); Make A Cheese Press For &15 (Turn a few spare parts into a home cheese factory) Regular Columns - News From MOTHER (Asking for a little help); Dear MOTHER (Is the overuse of antiseptic-laced cattle feed inviting disaster?); Country Lore (Nine (almost free) ideas to help burglarproof your home); Bits & Pieces (Earth-conscious housing from the roof down); Pet Health (Caring for the older dog; are you at risk for toxoplasmosis?); Energy Tips (Thoughtful landscaping can reduce utility bills by up to 30%); Home Remedies (How to speed the healing of tendinitis and broken bones); Seasonal Almanac (Why did FDR change the day we celebrate Thanksgiving?); Seed Swap (It's free and easy. Get your seeds now); Shuswap Diary (Deanna Kawatski's story of wilderness lost and faith renewed continues asher family puts down roots and strikes water); Handworks (The hardest part about stenciling is knowing when to stop); Last Laugh (William Chapin just turned 75 and he's not getting the message)
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| February / March 1995 |
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) |
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| April / May 1995 |
Mother's Natural Kitchen - Comfort Foods (Nothing like a good blast of late season, rainy cold to make you reach for the easy, quick, and not-very-good-for-you foods. Anne Vassal has cooked up five recipes that will warm you up without making you nod off) Regular Columns - News From MOTHER (The rights to a home); Dear MOTHER (Which is better for your home, a coonventional or thermal-mass woodstove? One reader writes us of his experiences with both); Country Lore (Bubble wrap might just be the solution to your insulation problem and a simple way to keep outdoor pipes from freezing); Bits & Pieces (The soda apple weed, though it sounds innocent enough, has literally covered 400,000 acres in Florida and it isn't stopping there. Plus, sheep employed as firefighters in California...really!); Seasonal Almanac (Once a plentiful and welcome messenger of spring, bluebird populations dropped by 90% until efforts were recently begun to save it); Herbs And Remedies (There's a pharmacy in your backyard, and two of its most important components are dandelion and stinging nettle. These lowly wonders can aid in the cure of over two dozen ailments); Energy Tips (Nationwide, water bill increases have far outpaced the rate of inflation and show no signs of slowing. Here are 15 ways to save on this major home expense); Shuswap Diary (When Deanna Kawatski returned from the wilderness to her childhood home on the lakeside, she could barely recognize it. That's progress for you); Seed Swap (Barter your way to a better summer garden); Last Laugh (William Chapin has been out to stud for quite a while...five card that is) |
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| November 1995 |
1995 Woodburning Special - Pellet Stoves To The Rescue? (While it's true that these specialized stoves, capable of burning fuels as diverse as reprocessed paper waste and feed corn, are expensive and occasionally clunky, they also represent, however, one of the best hopes for introducing clean burning, reliable. renewable energy to those now heating with gas and oil. Are they the answer for you?); Woodstove Update (Will Newt Gingrich's reform movement manage to finally sweep away the EPA's strangling regulations on the stove industry...and will we have created a monster in the process?); Reader's Forum On Solid Fuels (Over the past year, we have been collecting your questions and comments about wood-heating innovations. Here are the best, including a unique plan for a fireplace/woodstove combination...with both running simultaneously) Garden & Yard - MOTHER's Guide To Fall Planting In The Garden, Yard & Orchard (A collection of late-season seeding lore, including a dozen vegetables which over-winter beautifully without cold frames or clothes. And contrary to what you might imagine, the best time to plant your trees is right now); How To Make A Self-Watering Seed Starter (How would you like to simply plant your seeds in a homemade starter and forget about them? Well, if you have a few plastic tubs and some string, Beulah Hooper can put an end to your watering duties); Good Medicine For Old Apple Trees (One of the quickest and best ways to get in a fall crop of apples is to seek out a neglected tree and bring it back into productivity. The doctor is in) Backwoods Skills - Felling Trees Safely For A Lifetime (If you live in the country, sooner or later you'll be faced with the problem of clearing trees from your land, and common sense too often evaporates as soon as the chain saw starts. Norman Johnson shares over four decades of logging experience in this primer on that most dangerous chore) Country Skills - The Millennium Rock House (Two wheelbarrows, one pickup truck, and 13 million pounds of rock was all it took to make Ray and Vern Swangkee's dream home come true...and you won't believe the results); Building Futures (After spending a lifetime learning to be independent, you might have decided that it's time to lend a hand elsewhere. Here is a list of our favorite non-profit organizations of the year that would love to use your skills) MOTHER's Natural Kitchen - Talking Turkey (Anne Vassal is sick and tired of the same old holiday bird, and isn't going to take it anymore) Regular Columns - News From MOTHER (Wood pellets: a revolution in the making); Dear MOTHER (Readers from Australia, China, and the U.K. sound off); Country Lore (A turn-of-the-century mosquito trap works just as well today); Bits & Pieces (The lowdown on new techniques in tilling, composting, and water distilling); Country Vet (Andrea Looney debunks some conventional rumors on horse care); Energy & Environment (Once a national sensation, recycling is losing momentum. How to keep it going); Seasonal Almanac (Fred Schaff's charts help you spot November's unusual celestial configurations); Seed Swap; Shuswap Diary (Deanna Kawatski finally reclaims the wilderness home she lost years ago); Last Laugh (All the world's a stage for Bill Chapin...unfortunately) |
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| June / July 1996 |
Backyard Projects - A Weatherproof Deck (Decks are deceptively simple. Designing one to last ten years is a cinch, but building one to last five times that long requires you to think like an engineer. MOTHER just finished building a new deck at our cabin, and our story begins with a step-by-step plan for new construction, folled by a "footings to railings" guide on rehabilitating older decks); Natural Paths And Walkways (Every country place needs paths to order activity - from road to house, house to garden, garden to barn. John Vivian provides easy-to-follow instructions on how to make a roll-up boardwalk for mud season, and shows how to lay hard-surfaced pathways that last like a Roman roadway) MOTHER's Wood Shop - The Rolling Router Table (David Camp prides himself on being able to build with just about anything, and begins our series of easy, inexpensive wood shop projects with plans for a movable cutting table that quickly became the handiest item in the shop) Garden And Yard - Practical Weed Control (Waging war on weeds is a waste of time. Spraying and herbiciding and pulling and cutting is not only no way to get through the summer - it's not even very good for the garden. Mort Mather's "ten-day rule" of weed control offers a simple, practical way to keep the invaders at bay); Make An Old-Time Strawberry Barrel (How to get the equivalent of a 25-foot garden row of strawberries on only four square feet of soil? Well, start with an old whiskey cask, do a little reinforcing, throw in some perforated pipe, and you've reinvented one of the oldest ways of getting the most berries for your buck) Energy & Envorinment - The Last Days Of The World's Largest Windmill (Bill Young of Medicine Boy, Wyoming, watched in awe one morning as 100-mile-an-hour winds reduced the largest windmill in the world to a heap of debris. Alone and desperately underfunded, he is determined to get the mill back on-line and back to supplying electricity to nearly two thousand homes) Mother's Natural Kitchen - Cherry Jubilee (Anne Vassal loves ripe Michigan cherries, and she has a lifetime's experience knowing what to do with them. From cherry coffee cake to cherry chicken salad (that's right), here are her favorite recipes of the season) Regular Columns - News From MOTHER ("If I had a hammer"); Dear MOTHER (Our readers debate everything from tractors to vegetarianism); Country Lore (Ten tips from readers on how to make it at home or solve it alone); Bits & Pieces (Is "spring water" really from springs, and are "free-range" animals really free?); Health On-Line (If you live in the sticks, one of the biggest virtues of plugging into the internet is that it may just save you a trip to the doctor); MOTHER'S Mechanic (Wrench turner Jon Gail Blair tells you what most mechanics won't about how to keep your car out of the repair shop); Home Remedies (Ann of Sweet Annie's Herb Store offers her small business philosophy and her favorite herbal remedies, with a step-by-step preparation guide); Seed Swap (The easiest way to get planting); Country Vet (Dr. Andrea Looney talks about synchronizing goats' heat cycles and treating skin infections in just-sheared sheep); Last Laugh (Where's the peace and quiet of country life?) |
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| September 1996 |
Country Place - The 10 Best Places To Live In North America (The results of MOTHER's first ever Community Survey are in, and the hundreds of you who responded commented not only upon your individual communities but also upon the state of the nation, the quality of our air, water and soil; and the content of our character. From the Maritimes to the Cascades, the best places to live the good life); Finding The Perfect Country Place (Let's see if we can't convince you that the major purchase in your life - a home and a little land - needn't be nearly so expensive and constraining as the going price for a home and lot today in one of the "prime" areas. Here is what you won't find in the books, what the real estate ads don't tell you, and what brokers and lawyers don't want you to know) Fall Harvest & Storage - Eating Fresh All Year Round (In part one of our harvest special section, Mort Mather looks back over the year's of harvesting, storing, and reserving the bounty he and his wife, Barbara, have produced in their Maine garden. They pickle, can, freeze, and store their way to spring every year, and by planting late into the season, they eat fresh garden produce long until winter); Canning: A Modest Miracle (Deanna Kawatski learned the art of canning the hard way, a hundred miles deep inside the bush of British Columbia, where electric fridges were an amusingly distant idea. Deanna's step-by-step guide to preserving fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, jams, and pickles takes the guesswork out of this revered but often misunderstood fall tradition) Do It Yourself - Labor-Saving Compost Bin (If you worked hard in the garden, why work hard making compost as well? Build an alternative bin that takes up less space in the garden and elimniates turning compost...so you throw your back out doing something else, like weeding); A Ladder That Levels The Field (Robert Williams wanted a ladder that would permit him to work on hillsides, on uneven terrain, and from both sides of the ladder. He couldn't find one to buy, so he made one...for less than six dollars) MOTHER's Natural Kitchen - Making A Meal Of Garden Greens (Summer garden greens are flavorful and nutritious hot or cold, expecially if you know what's to put on 'em. You'll never buy it bottled again once you've tried Anne Vassal's easy and delicious homemade dressings) Regular Columns - News From MOTHER (Thoreau's dream made modern); Dear MOTHER (Readers sound off on the optimal remote phone); Country Lore (How to make newspaper holders, baby powder, solar cones, and more); Bits & Pieces (The perils of genetically engineered produce); Money Matters (Roy Green gives us the bad and worse news about your credit rating); MOTHER's Mechanic (Jon Gail Blair gets under your hood); Home Remedies (Don't blink those bloodshot eyes at us); Country Vet (Dr. Looney tells why horses suffer from ulcers and what you can do about it); Seasons (A rare sight - the harvest moon eclipses); Seed Swap (Why buy seeds?); Last Laugh (Ron Beathard is a connoisseur of shade trees) |
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| October / November 1996 |
Starting A Home Orchard - Big Money From Small Orchards (Bill Cahill of Long Island has discovered the magic formula for making a living on just a few acres. His dwarf trees produce more apples than he can pick, which brings a premium in the local market); Rediscovering The Heirloom Southern Apple (One of the most misguided notions in gardening is that apples are a northern fruit. Tim Hensley has made a life of rediscovering southern heirloom varieties and attests "Try an Oregon Delicious after sampling a Virginia Beauty and you'll think you're eating sawdust.") Country Skills - Make An Indestructible Cider Press (You can buy press kits, you can assemble store-bought models, but you have to start from scratch to build the kind of old-fashioned cider press that lasts a lifetime. MOTHER shows you how); Mother's Woodshop (Build a firewood sawbuck that makes cutting fuel wood faster and easier, as well as a rolling storage box that will keep the living room floor sawdust free) Garden & Yard - They Garden Best Who Garden Least: Fall Chores (Now that the crops are in, it's time to clean, rake, mulch, and set cover crops for the winter. Well...maybe not. In this season's installment of "The Lazy Gardener," Mort Mather cuts through the false folklore of late seson chores and makes a compelling case for doing...nothing) Energy & Environment - The Last Hunters (A proposal to open the Artic Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration has politicized two Native American tribes who reside in the protected federal reserve. Oddly enough, the two tribes are on opposite sides of the political battle); Wood Stove Update (The EPA, reeling from a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association, is under a court order to review current regulation of particulates. But a new generation of high-tech wood stoves is already in compliance with proposed stringent particulate regulations. It's not the EPA that is the enemy of the wood stove, it's the gas industry) Mother's Natural Kitchen - Harvest Fruit Favorites (There's something about wiping an apple on your flannel shirt on the way home from the orchard and eating it whole. But there's only one way to eat an apple. Here's how Anne Vassal's family cooks with apples, pears, and carnberries without getting stuck in the dessert rut) Regular Columns - Dear MOTHER (How to have free-range organic meat in your freezer all year); News From MOTHER (Matt looks through the buzz of campaign rhetoric and tallies the environmental scorecard for Bill Clinton and Bob Dole); Country Lore (Deter ants, relieve itchy skin, debug vegetables, and 61 other uses for vinegar); Bits & Pieces (The Liberty elm tree, resistant to Dutch elm disease, coming to your town soon); MOTHER's Mechanic (Jon Gail Blair lends us 35 years of experience as a mechanic); Home Remedies (How to use willow bark for medicine and emergency food, by wilderness guide Christopher Nyerges); Seasonal Almanac (Why the biggest snowstorms can come in November); Country Vet (Natural, preventative medicine for animals); Seed Swap (Berries, peppermint, mixed cut flowers, fennel - send and receive); Last Laugh (Edward Stern tells how true love gave him the courage to kill) |
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| November 1998 |
Cover Story - From The Ground Up (Cob, a natural building material made of sand, clay and straw, requires no machinery, little money, and more patience than strength - enabling most anyone to build his or her dream structure from the ground up, handful by handful. Molly Miller reports from Arkansas, where she recently helped to build a cob hermitage in the Ozarks) Country Skills - A Real Thanksgiving Bird (Despite umpteen Thanksgivings and Christmases past, how many of us can honestly say we have tasted a truly good gobbler? Precious few, says homesteader and small turkey farmer, M.H. Salmon...unless we're raising our own. Here's how to bring up healthy poults, how to house and feed them, even how to dress them when the time comes) Mother's Mason - Bricklaying For The Do-It-Yourselfer (What could be simpler than laying bricks? Plenty. The plain and elegant beauty of a brick wall has led more that a few novice builders to wrongly conclude there's nothin to it - till they're left looking at a pile of bricks and mortar where their wall should have been. Master Mason Richard T. Mallory offers a primer on the art and science of wall building) Garden & Yard - Indoor Gardening With Modern Hydroponics (Forget the hyped-up promises of "magic" indoor gardens you;ve seen advertised in the back of magazines. As John Vivian reveals, there's no magic to modern hydroponics. All you need is an elementary understanding of plant science, some simple-to-set-up-and-use equipment,and a thumb that's at least a touch green) Woodstove Update - The End Of The Woodstove? (Against the backdrop of America's dwindling market for wood heat, and on the heels of the recent wood, gas and pellet stove manufacturers' convention in St. Louis. Mother talks with industry gadfly Dan Melcon about the not-so-brightly-burning future of woodstoves Regular Columns - News From Mother (Finding community in cob); Dear Mother (Beware toxic flowers, horizontal stovepipes, and parraffin seals); Country Lore (Building flower barrels and bargain birdhouses); Mother's Photo Club (Mother's second photo harvest produces quite a crop); Bits & Pieces (Ancient logs discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior have become prospectors (and woodworkers) gold); Herbal Remedies (Sniff your way to a healthier body, mind and spirit); Energy And Environment (Sizing up your solar system); Seed Swap (It's hard to beat getting something for nothing); Country Vet (Why even pets need a low-fat, well-balanced diet); Mother's Natural Kitchen (A back-to-basics feast that leaves plenty of time for Thanksgiving); Seasons (This November, watch for the "sight of a lifetime" in a sky near you); Mother's Bookshelf (A wealth of wisdom, from cordwood masonry to growing better corn); Classifieds (Buy it, sell it, trade it, and a million folks will see it); Last Laugh (Dew worms get an ego boost, just north of the border |
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