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Issue #93 of Backwoods Home Magazine. May/June, 2005

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Publisher’s Note

7 Editorial:
Practicing what we preach

25 Ask Jackie:
Preserving bacon, feed for chickens, diseases from mice, dehydrated tomatoes,”real” bacon, cleaning cast iron, homemade concrete, canners that won’t seal, etc.

74 Irreverent joke page

76 Ayoob on Firearms:
Choose your ammo…police style

68 Claire goes to the movies:
Old-fashioned heroes

87 Letters

91 Classified ads (pdf)

91 Classified advertising form

90 Advertiser Index

75, 86 Book Reviews: Armed Response, The Black Arrow

95 BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books

96-97 Order form/Subscription Info

98 The last word:
One good reason or tax reform

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ABOUT THE COVER

This issue’s cover was rendered by our artist, Don Childers, on illustration board using gouache, a type of opaque watercolor. He said the painting was inspired by typical scenes that abound where he lives in Rush, Colorado, on prairie that was once the land where the Cheyenne used to hunt buffalo. Don has been Backwoods Home Magazine’s cover artist and article illustrator for sixteen years, beginning with our first issue.

FEATURES

Building and tools

51 Solar window panels By David Lee

David Lee shows us how to make windows that are not only beautiful but solar efficient.

62 Rebuilding the homestead greenhouse By Charles Sanders

Alternative energy

31 Paring down for off-grid living By Steven Gregersen

37 Add solar power to your truck camper By By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E., CEM

Farm and garden

21 Raising rabbits on the home place By Charles A. Sanders

One of the most efficient and nutritious animals that can be raised on the small place is the rabbit. Charles Sanders discusses their watering, feeding, breeding, housing, slaughtering, and butchering. He even supplies us with a recipe for cooking them.

58 Gardening for treasure By Alice Brantley Yeager

Self-reliance

8 Finding your own freedom By Claire Wolfe

Claire Wolfe makes the argument that freedom isn’t so much about where you live as it is “how” you live and your state of mind

14 Harvesting the wild blueberries By Jackie Clay

44 Starting over again: Part 4 By Jackie Clay

The Clays are in the midst of reestablishing themselves as they “start over” in the woods of northern Minnesota. A well has gone in, son David, 14, is becoming a man and has gotten his first deer but, now, the family has suddenly suffered a tragedy.

65 Fiddelhead ferns: great fun, healthful eating By Linda Gabris