A Backwoods Home Anthology: The Twenty-sixth Year

Contents Issue #151 (Jan/Feb 2015) My vew: ISIS and Ebola Everfree Farm's new coop Raise pigs on pasture Emergency food storage Build a compost tumbler Growing your own hay The homesteader's toolbox The big, wonderful world of rice Air power superiority Tanning snakeskins Make your own froe and split your own shakes Ayoob on Firearms: Of guns and snakes Barns: The centerpieces of farm life Make sourdough with wild yeast Ebola: Should we be worried Survival infection control The gee-whiz! page: Big fish, small fish, bad fish Ask Jackie The Last Word: Whatever happened to "peak oil"? Issue #152 (Mar/Apr 2015) My view: Defending against terrorists Build a keyhole garden Same garden — more food Growing hops for profit A recycled dresser makes a useful bathroom vanity Tire gardening Ayoob on Firearms: The break-open breech-loader Mom's Allegheny bread Grow cold-hardy grapes Easy-to-make farmer's cheese How to start an online information-based business Rogue Photographer Build a community assistance recharging station The simple jackknife Goat emergency: Splinting a broken leg Ask Jackie Surviving black flies Issue #153 (May/June 2015) My view: Abundance, gratitude, and satisfaction The great American BB gun How to grow great carrots Shed antlers for fun and profit Gabion walls for form and function Solar charge controllers Burdock candy Building Will's "Tornado Clucker Plucker" Ayoob on Firearms: Guns, suicide prevention, and backwoods lifestyles Make tomato supports with branches Insect bites Easy-to-make resuable cloth coffee filters Cultivating soil for beginners Growing corn on a rubble pile Ask Jackie Make your own maple sugar The Last Word: Climate Change Theory The gee-whiz! page: Reptiles Lenie in the kitchen: Beet borscht and butternut squash soup with chicken Perennial flowers Issue #154 (July/Aug 2015) My view: Thank you, Home Depot, for giving me a 10% veteran's discount Build a lean-to greenhouse Cooking with wild berries Save your own tomato seeds Rogue Photographer An introduction to small-scale home hydroponics The off-grid cabin project Preserve the harvest naturally through wild fermentation How to power your house from your car Dehydrate fruits, vegetables, and meats Dealing with heat stress Solar system codes — build it right! Ask Jackie The gee-whiz! page: Animals, humans, extraterrestrials, and tools Ayoob on Firearms: Of centuries and guns The Last Word: Let the USA PATRIOT Act die. Lenie in the chicken coop: A new coop for our flock of hens Issue #155 (Sept/Oct 2015) My view: How America can be saved from stupid people Spicy organic salsa Building feed boxes for cattle Harvesting and cooking giant puffball mushrooms Indispensable homestead kitchen tools Currants & gooseberries Be a Viking: Brew wild-crafted mead Bowhunting: The instinct and the arrow Ayoob on Firearms: Getting ready for deer season ... now Three MORE ways the world can end The gee-whiz! page: Trees A decorative garden from an old stump Oatmeal sausage: A treat from days gone by Build a vertical storage rack for cans A tale of two wasp traps Ask Jackie The Last Word: Corporations, profits, and taxes Issue #156 (Nov/Dec 2015) My view: Three cheers for free enterprise The off-grid cabin project, part 2 Dehydrating eggs at home Redeeming the sale barn goat Build your own fire pit Easy, no-knead bread Make a reusable teabag Tea takes the chill out of winter Warming holiday tea Home coffee roasting Emergency lighting Ayoob on Firearms: Everything you need and nothing you don't The gee-whiz! page: Insects The Last Word: Wondering about the "Bucket List" Build a dock in winter Lenie in the kitchen: Pumpkin soup and Mom's pumpkin muffins Build a wood crib with free materials Ask Jackie Make your own milk kefir Cut it, pile it, burn it: Tips for safely burning brush piles around the homestead Other titles available from Backwoods Home Magazine