Backwoods Home Magazine #96 - Nov/Dec 2005

Back issue no. 96 contains: Towers; Build a top-bar bee hive; Need more gas mileage?; 10 country do’s and don’ts; Teaching the joy of reading; Preparing for home evacuation; Starting over, part 7; Ice dams on roofs; Hibernation; Frostbite – don’t flirt with this sneaky danger; Take the chill out of winter; Make your own nut butters; Shiitake mushrooms; and Burghul, the noblest food achieved by wheat. Plus, Dave Duffy advocates that if you want to survive an emergency, look to yourself, not the Government; Massad Ayoob discusses the SOCOM-16; and John Silveira writes a tongue-in-cheek piece about legalizing marijuana. Plus, Jackie Clay answers readers’ questions about finding wild rice seeds, growing great tomatoes, tomato sauce, canning smoked salmon, pecans, dill, powdered eggs, and pickling garlic.