Countryside Journal

I stumbled upon a magazine recently that I really enjoy, and I think I'll officially endorse it and pass on the info here.

It's called "The magazine of modern homesteading", and the official title is Countryside & Small Stock Journal

It's been around since 1969 and is basic and simple, full of great "keepable" articles on growing and preparing food, raising smaller animals for food (rabbits, sheep, goats, chickens, bees etc) and self-reliance topics.

Here's their stated philosophy:

"It’s not a single idea, but many ideas and attitudes, including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative leisure; a concern for family nurture and community cohesion; a belief that the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a certain nostalgia for the supposed simplicities of the past and an anxiety about the technological and bureaucratic complexities of the present and the future; and a taste for the plain and functional."

I really appreciate the line in there about "the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money".  

It is geared primarily for those who have land away from the city limits, but many of the articles are city applicable.  

It's published six times yearly and is $18.  No frills or over-the-top glossy paper.  Just chalked full of experience, common sense, and advice.  I dig it.