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Backwoods Home - The Fourth Year Anthology
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Complete List of Articles
Building/Tools
- Insulation and vapor barriers
- How to stop an invading army — TERMITES!
- Land regulations are making it harder to move to the country
- Drive your own well for next to nothing
- How to build the fence you need
- Lumber regs protect big business, not the consumer
- What to look for in a kit log home
- Chinking for log homes
- Log homes — fact and fiction
- Living with a plywood floor
- Trusses — low-cost marvels to roof over most large spaces
- Design and build a barn
Country life
- The forest king is returning
- Living with a frozen privy
- Fireplace cooking cures the winter blues
- A night out at the Lady Griz game
- Barn cleaning
- In praise of the rural post office
- Recycle those old clothes into a braided rug
- Farm ethics
- The first slaughter
- Buying the first horse
- Homesteading at Hayden Lake
- I'm living my log cabin dream
- Father goose
- Fitting in with your new neighbors
- Backwoods lifestyle misunderstood by people living in the "real world"
- Preparing for snow-ins
- Cabin fever
Alternative energy
- Using water hydraulics to help install your house grounding rod
- Preparing your photovoltaic system for winter
- Using a "producer gas" generator to create electricity
- The sensible, integrated photovoltaic energy system
- Idaho utility entry into PV field may be a sign of things to come
- Electric car racing — what a gas!
- Selecting the right PV voltage
- Solar panel testing and repair
Independent energy
- Wind power from the past
- Wind power in the present
- Thermal mass has its place, but R value is the more efficient
Self sufficiency/Money/Jobs
- How to make your own "grab and go" survival kits
- Try buying at auctions to save money for just just about any item
- Using and storing wheat at home
- What you should know about gold
- A chronology of gold in American history
- Making a living as a writer
- Using photos to sell your writing
- Raising fishworms as a business
- How to build your own beehives
- The SKS carbine — an honest bargain
- The right rifle for a woman
- Long range antennas for the homestead
- How to make money with wild crayfish
- Harvesting from nature
- Slaughtering and butchering
- Harvesting the blacktail deer
- Nuclear superstition
- Planning to make a living the country
- Drying food — low cost, easy way to preserve your harvest
- Gathering low cost firewood
- Protect your home and family from fire
- Ostriches and emus — backwoods bonanza or feathered pyramid?
- Small engine maintenance for women
- Getting sugar from trees
Guns
- Handgun choices for women who want to provide their own defense
- Cleaning and maintaining your firearms
- They are not just "HIS firearms"
Farm/Garden
- Llamas guarding sheep? Not such a far-fetched idea
- Your garden has a history
- Calling earthworms???
- High beds and high production...with less work
- Using hybrids and creating your own varieties
- Roll your own biofertilizer
- Hotbeds — an old but still sound method to help you get a jump on the growing season
- Friendly alternatives for insect and pest control
- Choosing superior bedding plants
- Keep those empty milk jugs
- The incredible non-biodegradable food service pail
- A bit about ducks
- How to buy your first dairy goat
- The dairy goat — a gallon of milk a day
- Protect your garden with a homemade trap
- How to choose a greenhouse
- Peppers for short season growers
- Winter protection and planting of fruit trees
- Fall pumpkins and squash
Health/Environment
- Use houseplants to improve your indoor air quality
- Homebirth — a natural way to come into the world
- Understanding the environmental movement
Americana/Society
- The fully-informed jury can restore the "Bill of Rights"
- Doesn't anyone remember Tom Paine
- Guilty by default? One family's tragedy and a mother's warning
- Hamfests — overlooked goldmines for hobbyists an collectors
- Alternative education — learning in the real world
- A homeschool assignment
- Visiting Laura
- School at home for fun and profit
- Quilts — masterpieces of the heart and windows into women's history
- History of the Oregon trail
- Reliving the Oregon trail
- Conestoga, the prairie super freighter
- Thanksgiving — a celebration of freedom and harvest
Crafts
- Boredom got you tied in knots? Try "string craft"
- Flowered circlets
Miscellaneous
Editorial
- Taking care of yourself
- The new power of the mass media is eroding the freedom of the press
- Control government, not guns
- Milwaukee water, self reliance...and a cool country drink
- No ideology, no agenda (guest editorial by P.J. O'Rourke)
- Flushing toilets with other people's money
Recipes
- Hearty winter breakfasts
- Chicken with curried rice
- Smoked turkey, smoked brisket
- Soups and stew for late winter
- Stocks — as important as herbs and spices
- How to make cheese and butter
- Log homes, motorcycles and good food
- Salads for summer
- Apples Galore
- Muffin Magic
- Venison recipes
Original poems
- Lorne S. Inglehart
- Jim Watters
- Richard Lee Rose
- John Silveira
- June Knight
- June Knight
- John Silveira
Business Profile
Just for kids
- Rainy day magic
- Help for nature's nursery
- Have a chat with your cat
- Take a nite hike!
- A backwoods kitchen garden
- Some good clean fun!
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