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Issue #111

May/June, 2008

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A Backwoods Home Anthology — The Nineteenth Year
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DEPARTMENTS

6 Publisher's Note

7 Editorial:
What's driving prices up? What can you do about it?

80 Irreverent joke page

77 Ask Jackie:
Raising geese, Chronic Wasting Disease in venison, canning meat, rattlesnakes, etc.

34 Ayoob on Firearms:
Preparing gun owners for the short-term future

101 Letters

76 Movie Review

103 Advertiser Index

105 Classified ads (pdf)

105 Classified advertising form

109-111 BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books

112-113 Order form/Subscription Info

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ABOUT THE COVER

It took a lot of thinking to come up with this issue's cover, so I hope it works. The idea is to symbolize the economic squeeze a recession puts on ordinary people. Most of the articles in this issue show how to prepare for that squeeze. Dave Duffy modeled for this Don Childers' painting by holding a rolled up paper ball in his outstretched hand. Don made the hand shake as if it were under tension as it squeezed, and he even made the ocean more ominous by adding tsunami waves under the fingers.

FEATURES

Building and tools

8 The art of scrounging building materials at bargain prices
By Dorothy Ainsworth

93 A custom kitchen is affordable with a little creative thinking
By Jim Dickie

Self-reliance

18 Can you survive out of your pantry for a whole year?
By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E., CEM

24 Protein—the cornerstone of a survival diet
By Jackie Clay

30 Circle of friends—The importance of other people in our preparedness plans
By Claire Wolfe

39 The all-purpose family medical kit
By Jackie Clay

88 Preparedness Rule of Three
By Corey Gage

Energy

44 Energy class—Part 1
By Jeffrey R. Yago, P.E., CEM

Farm and garden

49 Get serious about gardening
By Jackie Clay

84 Keep your family safe from zoonotic diseases
By Joe Knight

Food and recipes

58 Whole grains, a healthy choice
By Sylvia Gist

72 Lenie in the Kitchen—Fast and easy bread recipes
By Ilene Duffy

74 The invention of food canning
By Brewster Gillett

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