Mother Earth News Issue #299 - Apr/May 2020

This issue covers a range of topics including:

An article by our very own Mike Haasl on starting a homesteading club

Building a hiking trail

Identifying what's preying on your chickens (this is an amazing article!)

Making natural inks

An interview with Wendell Berry

Making a Scottish fire brazier

Regrowing store bought produce

Storing and processing wool

Framing a Rob Roy kayak

Making a garden obelisk

Growing hops

Build a durable wooden garden fence

Joel Salatin's "10 Dreams for the Future"

and more!

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Wendell Berry is still kicking at 86!? Hot damn. I could've sworn he was one of the good ones we'd lost.

It's a interview Mother Earth News did with him in 1973 that they reprinted in this issue as part of their 50th anniversary.

Well, I suppose that makes more sense. Though I'm no less stoked to learn that he's still around. Probably have that interview somewhere in my collection...