Hobby Farm Home® - September/October 2009

Features
18 Fall Harvest Affair
As you bring in the bounty from your garden this year, share it with family and friends in a traditional harvest celebration. Use your
favorite recipes or try some of ours featured here.
by Kelly Wood

24 Aging Gracefully
With the right environment and training, more women are starting farmstead cheese-making operations of their own: from milking the
animals to marketing the cheese.
by Lisa Kivirist

30 Cider Day Rules!
Making cider from a robust apple crop may be the point of the West Corinth Community Cider Day, but building a community is a nice
side-benefit.
by Adrianne L. Shtop

38 Wild, Wild Wines
This harvest season, try making handcrafted wines from common fruit-from blackberries to peaches- grown locally.
by Sue Weaver

52 What to Plant Now
Autumn is upon us, but that doesn't mean your garden is done growing. Learn what to plant now and how to extend your growing season into the colder months.
by Jessica Walliser

60 Leaves of Green
If you enjoy birdwatching on your farm, get busy crafting a beautiful sand-cast birdbath using oversized leaves, concrete and these easy steps.
by Kelly Wood

66 Autumn's Artistry
Try these three fresh projects for decorating with pumpkins, leaves, gourds and other fall classics.
by Adrianne L. Shtop

Columns
6 Lessons Learned
Cherie Langlois

12 Country Fare
Lynda King

46 Garden Grit
Susan M. Brackney

50 Garden Home Solutions
P. Allen Smith

73 Farm Fetishes
Mary Beth Temple

76 Home Clinic
Cheryl Morrison

80 Hands On
Rhoda Peacher

84 Nature Calls
Linda Tagliaferro

86 Animal Talk
Audrey Pavia

In Every Issue
5 Editor's Note
8 On the Market
10 General Store
88 In the Air
90 HobbyFarms.com
91 Good Reading
91 Marketplace
94 Gallery
95 Classified Advertising
96 Back Home

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