Forgotten skills -- The self-provident home garden -- A modern return to pioneer seed-saving -- Renewing the pioneer seed bank -- Growing pure seed -- The pioneer seed-saving solution -- The challenge: extending the harvest -- Self-sufficiency using garden boxes -- Growing perennial vegetables -- Sweet self-reliance: grapes & fruit trees -- Simple pioneer cellaring solutions -- Growing long keeper -- Growing early vegetables -- Pioneer yeast -- Modern ideas the pioneers would have appreciated -- Perennials: flowers are going to rise -- Taking a second look at fresh eggs -- What every family should know when considering hen-keeping -- Solutions for the backyard flock -- Museum eggs -- Forgotten recipes.
