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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER Backwoods Home Magazine’s Don Childers, who is currently 86, painted this pastoral scene. The young boy knows that helping his mom transfer starts from her sunken greenhouse will result in delicious, home-grown...

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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER This cover by Backwoods Home Magazine’s longtime artist, Don Childers, features a young girl watching a small herd of cows. In the distance, the orchard is beginning to blossom and a patch...

DEPARTMENTS 6  Editor's Note 7  Editorial: How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it 42  Irreverent joke page 52  Ayoob on Firearms: "Gun control" for dummies 68  Ask Jackie: Storing potatoes, seed descriptions, making butter, etc. 71  Book Review:The Encyclopedia of...

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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER After almost 30 years, Don Childers continues to create beautiful covers for BHM. This one depicts a mother and her two small children harvesting pumpkins from their garden. When Dad gets home,...

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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by Don Childers, a family collects maple sap from their trees to boil it down into syrup in the nearby shack. Mom drives the ATV carefully over the snow...

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