Countryside
I ran across a new magazine a few weeks
ago that many of you may be interested in --- Countryside &
Small Stock Journal. It's put together by the same folks who
brought us Backyard
Poultry, and it has the same in depth articles and lack of
flashiness. (Think Organic
Gardening Magazine in the '70s before it turned into a mass of
color photos and ads.)
Countryside is intriguing because of its large section by readers --- a
full twenty pages of firsthand accounts from people who're living the
homesteading dream on a big or small scale. The one I read most
recently also had an article by a couple who were homesteading in
Canada, 100 air miles from the closest town. Wow!
While Mother Earth News
fills a similar niche, Mother is flashier and, after about a year,
became very repetitive. (I keep reading Mother only because every
month or two it comes up with a really cool article like this
one on biochar.) I don't know yet whether Countryside will
become equally repetitive, but from the breadth of topics covered in
the three issues I've read, I suspect not. If you're the magazine
type, I recommend you check Countryside out.
Or explore more posts by date or by subject.
About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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For now I just subscribe to the Mother Earth News feed. But I do get two subscriptions: Backwoods Home and Back Home. They are similar titles with similar content, but one is a more hardcore, survivalist, right-leaning Libertarian publication (BWH) while the other is closer to what Mother Earth News used to be. Back Home doesn't have nearly the depth that Backwoods Home does, but sometimes I like to read about living off the land without being lectured about how our freedoms are being threatened by "those crazy liberals".
I wonder if BWH realizes that they are constantly offending a significant portion of their readership? Or, more importantly, I wonder if they care? Either way - as long as they keep the meaty content in their otherwise great publication I'll continue skipping the editorials and subscribing to the magazine.
Thanks for the tip on the new mag. I'll have to see if I can find some old copies on Criagslist or something.
Cheers,
Everett