Country Journal 1992 - Abstracts

Country Journal 1992
TitleSubjectAuthors
A dry well for drainage.Home and garden 
A sugarhouse you can build.Home and gardenLeonard Faria
A woodland wildflower garden. (includes related articles on shade-loving ground covers and wildflowers)Home and gardenJim Wilson
Cold frames. (includes related articles on cold frame potting soil, starting plants, building dutch lights and direct sowing vs. transplanting) (Special Section: The All-Season Covered Garden)Home and gardenEliot Coleman
Composting with earthworms.Home and gardenMike Woodruff
Considering a saddle horse: a guide to breed selection, equipment, and care. (includes related article on important equipment)Home and gardenMaxine Kumin
Fences and gates: Country Journal's guide to wood and wire, gates, posts, tools, cost cutting, repairing, and other essentials. (Special Section)Home and gardenJohn Vivian
Fill it up with what? (advantages of electric automobiles) (includes list of manufacturers)Home and gardenNoel Perrin
Freezing your fruits and vegetables. (includes related articles on wrapping for freezing and types of freezers) (Winter Stores: How to freeze what you've grown or buy what you haven't)Home and gardenJanet Greene
Going once, going twice. (country auctions)Home and gardenJacquelyn Peake
Going solar. (using power from the sun to heat and light a home naturally)Home and gardenJon Vara, Noel Perrin
Green and roughsawn: for bargain lumber, unusual woods, and odd-sized timbers, a local sawmill is just the place. (includes related articles on drying green wood and Steve Sperry's sawmill)Home and gardenDrew Langsner, Steve Sperry
Greener ways to melt ice. (environmentally safer ways to remove ice from sidewalks, driveways)Home and gardenRansal L. Moxley
Harvesting dandelions.Home and gardenJill Calabrese
Hawks in the back yard. (includes related article on sharp-shinned and cooper's hawks) (Cover Story)Home and gardenScott Weidensaul
Heirloom seeds. (includes related articles)Home and gardenLiza N. Burby
How to clear snow. (clearing country driveways; includes related article on constructing a Vermont scoop)Home and gardenMark W. Freeman
How to help turtles in trouble. (conservation guidelines)Home and gardenAllen Salzberg
In the hands of Willem Kips: the fate of agriculture may lie with biodynamic methods used on a small Dutch farm reclaimed from the Zuyder Zee. (saltwater inlet and coastal area off of the northwest Netherlands) (includes related article on the reclamation of Dutch farm land from sea erosion)Home and gardenRichard M. Ketchum
Keeping tabs on the weather. (includes related articles on home forecasting devices and instinctive human weather forecasting abilities and other unusual signs)Home and gardenNathaniel Tripp, T. Warren Kaericher, Patrice A. Crowley
Locating and building with old brick. (includes list of sources)Home and gardenRobert L. McKinney
Making maple syrup.Home and gardenFred Schneider
New life for the American elm.Home and garden 
Out of the attic. (1901 archival photo of a traveling fruit tree salesman) (Illustration)Home and gardenPatrice Crowley
Out of the attic. (nostalgic tribute to the 1914 popcorn wagon at country fairs) (Illustration)Home and gardenPatrice Crowley
Pole barns, sheds, and shelters: how to erect an inexpensive but durable outbuilding quickly, using a time-honored method. (includes related article on constructing gable roofs)Home and gardenCharles McRaven
Removing and preventing rust. (tool maintenance)Home and gardenJohn Neary
Rural realism: a growing breed of realist painters pays homage to America's vanishing landscape.Home and gardenJ.A.C. Dunn
Salvaged materials. (used materials reduce home construction or remodeling costs) (includes related articles on using old lumber and lead paint, and storing materials)Home and gardenLetitia Savage
Saving an old cane chair. (includes related article on the costs of having a chair re-caned and a list of sources)Home and gardenKathy L. Harvey
Seasonal food. (year-round availability of fruits and vegetables) (Special Section: The All-Season Covered Garden)Home and gardenBarbara Holland
Sell your produce at a roadside stand. (Cover Story)Home and gardenVern Grubinger
Spring burning. (trash burning)Home and gardenCastle Freeman Jr.
Stalking a good small-town garage. (includes related article on consumer rights)Home and gardenSteve Fowle
Staying home. (owning goats; excerpt from book 'A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm')Home and gardenStanley Crawford
Surveying country property: what a landowner should know about property lines and surveyors. (includes related article on when to do a land survey)Home and gardenPeter V. Fossel, Robert W. Foster
The art of keeping a small engine running: for those who hate pulling on starter cords. (includes a troubleshooting checklist)Home and gardenFred Schneider
The best new flower and vegetable varieties.Home and gardenRansal L. Moxley
The earthworms.Home and gardenRebecca Rupp
The log house. (includes related articles)Home and gardenMichael S. Durham
The perennial Christmas poinsettia. (how to keep it blooming for years)Home and gardenRena Presley
The secrets of planning your vegetable garden. (includes related articles on garden lay-out, succession planting, space-saving, and companion planting) (Cover Story)Home and gardenAnne Halpin
The town that saved its energy future. (Osage, Iowa; includes related articles on conservation, utility rates and home heat savings)Home and gardenJohn Rudolph, Jon Hansen
The tundra swan. (nesting swans of northern Alaska and the Canadian Arctic area)Home and gardenRichard Adams Carey
The tunnel greenhouse. (temporary winter plastic cover for crops) (Special Section: The All-Season Covered Garden)Home and gardenEliot Coleman
What never to buy at the supermarket: a cartful of healthful ideas and cautions. (Winter Stores: How to freeze what you've grown or buy what you haven't)Home and gardenSally Hayhow Cullen
Yellow eyes. (Eastern coyote; includes related article on the Western coyote)Home and gardenRobert H. Busch, Charles W.G. Smith
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