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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER This family is camping out in the woods to take advantage of the last few warm days of summer. The cast-iron pot has been simmering stew all day, but the impatient kids cook...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by BHM artist Don Childers, a pair of bundled-up children collect acorns from their well-raked lawn. Mom will process the acorns into acorn flour later — and...
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Click on items listed in green to read them. DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER No matter how cold (or how late) it is, the kids are still going to play in the fluffy snow on a moonlit night. Luckily, there...
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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...
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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...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by Don Childers, an older woman sits on the cabin porch. Her faithful dog stays by her side, keeping watch while she knits. These days, she tends her garden...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover, painted by Don Childers, Mom hangs laundry in the apple orchard while her son and daughter play peacefully near the stream. On this calm autumn day, even the...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER Don Childers, our artist for 28 years, has come through again with another spectacular cover. We wanted to reprise his favorite cover from issue #13, but this time add the...
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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...
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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,...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER This cover by Don Childers depicts a self-reliant couple living out in the woods. They have a small home with a garden out front, a woodshed behind the house, and an...
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER We gave our artist, Don Childers, the go-ahead to come up with any cover he chose for this issue. It works out perfectly that this cover pairs quite well with Kristina...
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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....
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by BHM artist Don Childers, two young children peek into a coop. Like Jackie Clay-Atkinson has done in the past, this coop houses both chickens and turkeys....
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DEPARTMENTS ABOUT THE COVER In this cover by long-time BHM artist, Don Childers, the rebirth of the print issue is represented by the growing seedling. Like this young tree, Backwoods Home Magazine...
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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 while...
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