Joe's Pick Six

As of the Aug/Sept 2024 issue, we at Mischka Press have published 100 editions of Rural Heritage Magazine. To celebrate, we've put together a package of publisher Joe Mischka's favorite issues for only $24.95 with free shipping. The six issues are: Dec/Jan 2012: This issue has stories about working with oxen, market gardening, driving a single horse, driving three, restoring farm machinery and modifying a hay baler to work behind a team, blacksmithing, and lots more.

Feb/Mar 2015: Here are stories about how to use a pad correctly under a collar, starting a working steer, tapping maple trees, how to set up and use a walking plow, learn to read equine ears, using a forecast, barn quilts and more.

Jun/Jul 2017: We have stories about the economics of using portable hoop houses to farm with horses, teaching kids to work horses, designing a dump cart, growing and using heritage corn, preserving and promoting prairie land and the rewards of draft animal powered farming, to name just a few.

Aug/Sep 2019: This issue teaches how to choose an ox breed, build and use a wheeled hoe, store your harness, use weeds as a poor man’s cover crop, keep a family cow, log with Fjords, roast meat on a spit and help your veterinarian help you. And more, of course.

April/May 2020: Here we learn how to fine tune a walipini construction, find and restore vintage field equipment, modify a cultivator with a hydraulic lift system, attract pollinators, grow heritage wheat and train a young stallion to drive among mares. And more.

Dec/Jan 2022: This volume teaches about pasture safety, how to build a pioneer market wallet, start a regenerative garden, build skid barns on your farm and keep and use a sheepdog. It also has reports on the previous year’s NMDHA Field Day, ABA Rendezvous and U.S. Plowing Contest. And, you guessed it, lots more.