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Issue #121

January/February, 2010

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Editor's Note

7 Editorial:
A Backwoods Home youth golf club

40 Ask Jackie:
Growing potatoes, broody hens, grain grinders, washing eggs, etc.

28 Ayoob on Firearms:
Women and guns

74 Lenie in the kitchen
Sunday night dinner

72 Building basics
Pouring concrete

76 Irreverent joke page

82 Letters

87 Classified ads (pdf)

87 Classified advertising form

89
Advertiser Index

90-94
BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books

95-96 Order form/Subscription Info

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ABOUT THE COVER

This issue's cover is a watercolor by BHM artist Don Childers. As a model he used the page 10 photo of Eric Ainsworth, which was taken by Eric's mom and longtime BHM writer, Dorothy Ainsworth. The fact that Don's art appears throughout the issue is a testament to technology: at age 79, Don telecommutes from his home in Colorado, emailing back and forth with us to get all the art just right.

FEATURES

Self-reliance

39 Call me plumber
By Emily Chadwick

57 Understanding the music: Winter in the High Desert
By Claire Wolfe

62 Root cellars
By Charles Sanders

68 An easy root cellar from a surprising source
By Doug Fluckiger

Food and recipes

44 Healthy, hearty soup
By Linda Gabris

Building

8 Building Eric's house, part 2
By Dorothy Ainsworth

51 Our super insulated home
By Fred Aydelotte

Farm and garden

20 Rhubarb, the pioneer "pie plant"
By Jackie Clay

34 Graft your own designer fruit trees
By Jackie Clay

Making a living

56 Jamie Fuchs: Producer of green cleaners
By Sylvia Gist

History/Americana

26 The "good" old days
By Tom Kovach

77 Abandoning the Constitution!
By John Silveira

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