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This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The Eighth Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. Departments Note from...

This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The 22nd Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Editor's Note...

This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The 22nd Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Publisher's Note...

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This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The 21st Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Publisher's Note...

DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER After a long morning of playing outside under the blue summer sky, a brother and sister run home for lunch, with their dogs running beside them. When Mom calls, the kids know...

This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The Tenth Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. Departments Note from...

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This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The 22nd Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Editor's Note...

This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The Sixteenth Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Publisher's Note...

DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover, BHM artist Don Childers depicts Managing Editor Jessie Denning’s close encounter with a cougar. In Don’s rendition, her cat cowers behind her, while her dog barks ferociously at the...

DEPARTMENTS 6  Editor's Note 7  Editorial:Abundance, gratitude, and satisfaction 51  Ayoob on Firearms: Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles 62  Ask Jackie: Buttermilk, laundry soap, June bugs, seedlings, etc. 67  Country Moments 68  The gee-whiz! page 70  Lenie in the kitchen 72  Irreverent joke page 73  Rogue Photographer 78  Letters 82  The last word: Climate...

DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by longtime BHM artist Don Childers, a mother black bear and her cub lumber across a meadow. From his distant cabin, a man watches this beautiful scene, knowing that...

This issue is Sold Out. Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The Fifth Year Click on General Store to the left. Click on items listed in red to read them. Departments Note from...

This issue is Sold Out. <!--Most articles are included in our print anthology A Backwoods Home Anthology — The 20th Year Click on General Store to the left.--> Click on items listed in red to read them. DEPARTMENTS 6  Editor's Note...

DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER Don Childers painted this farm scene while visiting Dave and Ilene Duffy in Oregon this past fall. Everyone put their two cents in: We need a small child in Grandpa's lap; that...