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Issue #122

March/April, 2010

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DEPARTMENTS

6 Editor's Note

7 Editorial:
An assessment of America from Russia

60 Ask Jackie:
Grinding buckwheat, raising feeder geese, making butter, processing venison, etc.

65 Ayoob on Firearms:
Spare firearms

51 Irreverent joke page

71 Product review:
Ed Brown Custom Massad Ayoob Signature Model .45

82 Letters

86 Classified ads (pdf)

86 Classified advertising form

88 Advertiser Index

89-94 BHM anthologies, CD-ROMs, & books

95-96 Order form/Subscription Info

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ABOUT THE COVER

This issue's cover is another by our longtime artist, Don Childers. As a model he used the photo of a bucket of red potatoes that leads Alice Yeager's article, Gardening is good for you, beginning on page 24. The medium Don used was an opaque watercolor paint, called gouache, on Crescent No. 99 Cold Press illustration board. Don's covers continue to dazzle and delight our readers.

FEATURES

Self-reliance

8 Emergency and backwoods water treatment: Part 1
By Tim Thorstenson

30 Six thoughts about werk! when building at Last Chance Gulch
By Claire Wolfe

52 Your kitchen pharmacy
By Rebekah L. Cowell

56 Beat supermarket psychology and save
By Karen Zlattner

Food and recipes

36 Vegetarian and semi-vegetarian
By Richard Blunt

Farm and garden

20 The $1 garden
By Jonathan Nunan

24 Gardening is good for you
By Alice Yeager

28 Grow potatoes in hay
By Dianna Simms

46 Bovine basics for beginners
By Patrice Lewis

Making a living

59 Nicole Jarvis: Vegetable gardener
By Sylvia Gist

History/Americana

72 A quick tour of hyperinflation and the possible consequences for America
By John Silveira

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