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Epicurus.com - Backwoods Home Magazine
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List Price: $23.95
Our Price: $24.95
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
Manufacturer: Backwoods Home Magazine
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: Backwoods Home Magazine
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: Backwoods Home Magazine
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: Backwoods Home Magazine
Studio: Backwoods Home Magazine
Subscription Length: 365
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Written for people who have a desire to pursue personal independence, self-sufficiency, and their dreams. It offers "how to" articles on owner-built housing, independent energy, gardening, health, self-employment, country living, and other topics related to an independent and self-reliant lifestyle.
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Summary: My grandpa and grandma absolutley LOVE this magazine.
Comment: I got a subscription of this magazine for my grandpa and grandma for Christmas.
They absolutley love the magazine and can't live without it. This magazine is full of great recipes that my grandma enjoys, and also news and information that my grandpa lusts after. News, that you don't hear everyday on the radio or news, news that 80 year old Grandparents LOVE and enjoy. I plan on getting this magazine for them again and again.
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Summary: I get jitters when it arrives!
Comment: I am an earthy-crunchy, organic, outdoorsy type and I love simple, natural things. [Yes, I shave my legs! I'm not that bad! Pfft.] Anyway, this is probably one of my favorite magazines of all time. It isn't for everyone, I will grant you that, but if you're into your home and land it is terrific.
Seriously, this magazine has a little bit of everything for everyone....its subtitle is "practical ideas for self-reliant living". Don't you think we can all use a little of that? It would be nice if we could not be so reliant on other countries and their oil....couldn't we go on and on about that one?
For instance, the newest issue touches on the following subjects: Panning for gold, making sausage, solar batteries, funerals don't have to be expensive, how to cook black bear [yes, really], the benefits of mulching, build a water component system, the Marlin 336 firearm, put your garden to bed for the winter, Kinder goats: a small breed for milk and meat.
The magazine is educational, wholesome, down-to-earth, and very family-oriented.
I subscribed last year. When it arrives in the mail I practically start jumping up and down, then run in the house and stash it in my briefcase so I can devote the "perfect" time to read it.
It really is great. In fact, I just resubscribed and I did so for 5 more years. I can't wait to see what Mr. Duffy and his crew in Oregon pump out over that time frame.
I'm sure they will send you a sample issue if you call and ask them for it: 800-835-2418.
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Summary: Excellent for what it is
Comment: I really like both Mother Earth News and this magazine but it's as far right as Mother Earth News is far left (recently edited: the above poster is right, it is more libertarian than far right now that they mention it). Geared more towards survivalist it has a bit of a paranoid feel to it ("Handguns are to keep you alive while you get back to the house to grab the shotgun you shouldn't have left with in the first place"). They offer the whole collection of everything they've ever published, which I bought and love. I just skip over the government-is-out-to-get-you articles (mostly). Jackie Clay does a monthly Q&A section that is really great. Lot's of stuff on canning and storing food.
Countryside magazine is my favorite as it has the same type of info as Mother Earth News and Backwoods Home with just about no political leanings.
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Summary: A whopping good read!
Comment: As a Mother Earth News reader since the 70s I've become more and more dissatisfied with the 'slick' and corporate feel of the latest incarnation of TMEN. Then I found BACKWOODS HOME MAGAZINE and read every issue cover to cover. It gives me the type of substance of the old TMEN, but with a different ideological bent. Though I almost never agree with John Silvera he does a very important thing; he makes me think about the issues in a whole new light. The best John Silvera columns are when I do not agree with him, but reconsider old worn ideas I might have held as dear to my heart. Thank You John.
Dealing with Dave Duffy and his whole team has been a pure pleasure. I've order many of the anthologies (back years in single copy form) and have been very pleased with the rapid shipping and care they take with each order.
If you're even thinking of moving to a more rural lifestyle this is the magazine for you and you should order it today.
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Summary: The best magazine of it's kind
Comment: Over the years I've read and subscribed to many different magazines about a simpler life and sustainable living. And this is by far the best I've read. It's what others have started off as but then gotten commercialized. This magazine truly gives a wealth of information. It has a little bit for everyone. Give it a try and I'm sure you'll love it.
As for the reviewer that had problems with the subscription service, that was not my experience. I first started with a trial issue and then a subscription from there and have never missed an issue. When I've called to renew my subscriptions or order books I've always had a very pleasan experience with the staff and very prompt service and shipping.
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