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Volumes I - IV: Single issues are $2.00 each. Double issues are $4.00. (Published 10x per year)

Volume V and later: $4.00 each. With this volume, HDN changed to double-size, bimonthly issues.

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Vol I - 2002

#1 Mozzarella Cheese, The Milking Stand (monthly column, mostly on goats)
#2 Springtime at the Home Dairy, The Milking Stand, What to Do With All That Goat Milk, Spring Butter
#3 Pasture Management for the Family Cow (part I), The Milking Stand, A Story of Faith and Hope, Old-Fashioned Cottage Cheese
#4 Pasture Management for the Family Cow (part II)
#5 Let’s Make Yogurt!, The Milking Stand, Goat Browse, Buttermilk Cheese
#6 Summer’s Delight (Ice Cream), Recipes and Book Reviews
#7 Moving Up to a Milking Machine, The Milking Stand
#8 Who Does What on a Dairy Farm? (Milking Stand), Goat Milk Paint
#9 Life with Ernie -- First Year with a Milk Cow
Sorry --
sold out
#10 The Birth of Cheese: Lactic Versus Rennet Curd; Cheese Dreams; aged unpressed goat cheese (Milking Stand)
Sorry --
sold out
#11 Keep it Clean: Sanitation in the Home Dairy; Review of Home Cheese Making; The Culprits: A Lineup (dairy pathogens); The Milking Stand: Wassail

Vol II - 2003

#1 Why Groundhog Day is a Dairy Holiday (The Milking Stand); Tips on Cleanliness and Pest Control; La Canadienne -- an Unusual Family Cow; Creole Cream Cheese
#2 Home Remedy Saves Buttercup’s Injured Teats, Creme Brulee recipe, Birthing the Babies (Milking Stand), Cheese Yields of Dutch Belted Milk
#3 So Many Cheeses, So Little Time (part I), Differences in Goat Milk, Kefir
#4 So Many Cheeses, So Little Time (part 2), How to Bandage a Cheese
#5-6 Double Issue: Soiling -- An Option for the Mini-Farm (about growing your own feed), Bo-Peeping (Milking Stand), Caerphilly Cheese, Milking Sheep, Measuring Titratable Acidity, Confused About Fat?
#7 Suburban Camembert-Style Cheese, Giving Cheesemaking Demonstrations (Milking Stand)
Sorry --
sold out
#8 Goat Milk Composition, Differences by Breed (Milking Stand), Aging Gracefully - Mold-Ripened and Washed-Rind Cheeses; Blessed are the Cheesemakers (Book Review)
#9 Aging Gracefully - Hard and Special Needs Cheeses, Why I Love Fresh Milk, Goat Milk Composition - Differences by Breed (Milking Stand) (continued)
#10 Aging Gracefully -- Denizens of the Cheese Cave, Cheeses & Wines of England & France, With Notes on Irish Whisky (Book Review)

Vol III - 2004

#1 Milk Differences and Late Lactation Milk (conclusion -- Milking Stand), Water Wars
#2 Oh, No! Blown Cheese!, Fancy Butters, Queso Blanco
#3 Keeping ‘em In, The Untold Story of Milk (book review), Is She or Isn’t She? (how to tell if a doe is pregnant), Farmer’s Cheese
#4 The Art of Pasteurizing, Cheesemaking 201 with Jim Wallace
#5-6 Double Issue - Getting Cultured (all about starter cultures); Traveling Cheesemakers (The Milking Stand); Bacteriophage!; Who Sells What?; What’s in that Culture?; Natural Starter Cultures; What’s Wrong With My Starter? Book Review -- The Cheesemaker’s Manual; the Maslin pan
#7 The Day Milk Fever Hit Our Farm; Milk Fever in Cows; Pasture Perfect (book review); Dulce de Leche
#8 Cheese Dreams Come True, Preparing for a Hurricane (The Milking Stand)
#9 Winter’s A-Comin’ (The Milking Stand); Queso Asadero
#10 Sharing Your Cheese (Cheese Plates, Cheese Boards, Cheese Courses), Books about Cheese

Vol IV - 2005

#1-2 Double Issue - Finding Creamo; The Case for Unhomogenized Milk; Weston A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon and Raw Milk; Review -- Nourishing Traditions; Sharing a Dairy Animal; Legal Availability of Raw Milk; Milking Stand
#3 The Recipe Issue -- recipes for making dairy products and using them
#4 The Home Cheese Cave, How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar (book review)
#5-6 Double Issue - Dairy Breeds and Their Milk (cows and goats)
#7 Getting Started in Cheesemaking, Goat Dairying in New Zealand
#8 Dairy Sheep Breeds, Suburban Cheesemaking and Other Ramblings
#9-10 Double Issue - More Camembert Please, Home Dairy Hodgepodge (Milking Stand), The Other Dairy Animals, Myth-conceptions about Lactose, National Animal ID System, Macaroni & Cheese (recipe)

Vol V - 2006

#1 Rona’s Beeswaxing Method, The NAIS: What’s It To You?, Cheesemaking Workshop with Jim Wallace, Milking Goats in Hawai’i
#2 A City Dairy; Feta - Easy, Versatile and Quick!; Recipes from Rona - yogurt, soft, buttermilk and hard cheese
#3 Our Invisible Culture of Life; Kefir Rediscovered! and Wild Fermentation (book reviews); Old World Cheese in a New World; Recipes for Lactic Curd Cheeses; Bonnyclabber Class at Heamour Farm; ALBC on NAIS; Q&A on cultures and rennet
#4 Aging Cheese: Where to Begin?; Middle-Aged Cheese Maven Tells All (the Milking Stand); (Probably) More Than You Want to Know about Rennet; Plant-Based Coagulants; The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook (review); Create Your Own Soothing Smoothies
#5 Suburban Mozzarella-Style Cheese; You Can't Keep 'em All - or Can You? (The Milking Stand); The Home Wine Cellar: A Complete Guide to Design and Construction (book review -- wine cellars and cheese caves have a lot in common); Cheese Rind Artistry; Old-Fashioned Hot Chocolate (recipe)
#6 Make Your Own Rennet; In Your Own Backyard (sustainability); Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?; The Milking Stand; holiday recipes; Encyclopedia of Country Living (book review)

Vol VI - 2007

#1 Sustainable Living in Montana; Do Weeds Make Good Feeds?; Goats and Organic Food Production; Turn Your Trash Into Treasure’ The Cow Economy & Keeping a Family Cow -- book reviews; The Udderly EZ Milker; The Eurocave
Sorry --
sold out
#2 Sustainable Dairying: Managing Gaots on a Dollar a Day; Let's Start A Revolution! (sustainable small ruminant dairying); ATTRA - a great resource; Making Artisan Cheese -- book review; Italian Hard Cheeses; What is a Clean Break?; Saturated Cheese Brine; Rind Care
#3 Not-So-Plain Vanilla; Camembert, Brie & Blue Cheese Making Guide (book review); Rind Formation in Camembert and Brie Cheese; Some Interesting Resources on the Web; California Hispanic-Style Cheeses
#4 What's Going On in an Aging Cheese?; Where to Get Stuff; Making Our Purchases Count; Followup on the EZ Milker; Green Cheese - What's That About?; Pennsylvania Dutch Cup Cheese
#5 Alpine Cheeses; Baby Swiss and Gruyère; Alpine Cheese Recipes; Raw Milk Resource Guide (book review); Fancy Cheese in American (book review); The Last (Milking) Stand; Swiss Cream recipe
#6 The Holiday Recipe issue; The Omnivore's Dilemma (book review); Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (book review)

Vol VII - 2008

#1 Quark, Quark, Quark; Home Dairy News To Live On!; Moving to Paradise; The Butter Bell; Artisan Cheesemakers List Returns; Cheese and Cheese-Making (book review)
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