Back issue No. 124 contains: Build a goat cottage; moving to our Maine homestead; Vermicomposting; all about healthy elderberries; Ethiopian food with Richard Blunt; Jug lines, limb lines, and trot lines for fishing; part 2 of Emergency and Backwoods Water Treatment (part one in Issue No.122, part 3 in No. 125)); the poor man’s ultra-light dual-fuel backpacking stove; long gun and short gun shooting similarities; breaking in a sodbuster on the ranch; a peek into the life of Pekin ducks; pecan-coated rock fish; and the California marijuana initiative. Plus, Jackie Clay answers questions about drying summer squash, seasoning cast iron, making yogurt, canning in gallon jars, making salt pork, a butter mold, having calves or heifers, getting started with homesteading, growing potatoes in tires, and dehydrating apples.