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Issue #94 of Backwoods Home Magazine. July/August, 2005

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Publisher’s Note

7 Editorial:
Tsunamis and “the experts”

66 Ask Jackie:
Sourdough bread, breeding ducks, potatoes in containers, butchering pigs, keeping homemade pickles crispy, buy a big enough canner, canning milk. searching for Hopi Pale Grey squash seeds, canning milk, preserving bread, growing lentils, plastic eating squirrels, low maintenance edible landscaping, smelly coffee grounds, pressure canning stock, loosening up clay soil, Brussel sprouts and radish greens, canning dry mixes and breads, etc.

58 Irreverent joke page

79 Book Review: The PVC Project Book

87 Letters

91 Classified ads (pdf)

91 Classified advertising form

90 Advertiser Index

95 BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books

96-97 Order form/Subscription Info

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ABOUT THE COVER

This issue’s cover was rendered by our artist, Don Childers, for our first Self-reliance for women special issue.

The painting was composed on illustration board. A watercolor called gouache was used for the background, and Genesis, a paint that sets when heat is applied, was used for the figure.

Inspiration for the painting came from a photograph furnished by one of our longtime writers, Dorothy Ainsworth. It was a photo taken of her when she was building her own log house in Ashland, Oregon.

FEATURES

Special section Self-reliance for women

41 Starting over again without a many By Jackie Clay

Despite the recent death of her husband Jackie Clay has not given up her dream of a self-reliant lifestyle with her parents and teen-aged son.

49 Self-reliance for women surviving a biochemical attack By Kelly McCarthy

52 Self-reliance is a mindset A woman’s opinion By Dorothy Ainsworth

54 A view of self-reliance from a more timid perspective A woman’s opinion By Claire Wolfe

56 Girls growing up movie reviews By Claire Wolfe

59 Females and firearms By Massad Ayoob

Building and tools

8 Make shade when the sun shines By Dorothy Ainsworth

Sunlight and heat will oxidize, vaporize, and brutalize everything it glares down on. So Dorothy Ainsworth shows us how she put awnings on her log buildings to both protect and enhance their value.

Alternative energy

37 Grid-tie solar powered farm By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E., CEM

A “grid-tie” system refers to a solar power system that transfers all of the electrical power generated directly back into the local utility grid and does not have a battery bank. It can significantly reduce your monthly utility costs and, since there are no batteries, there is almost no maintenance.