Mother Earth News

[Damummis]

I noticed the MEN mag sitting on the kitchen table as I headed to the "office". "Ooo, good office reading material." Sure it has some great articles and all but out of 130 pages, only 51 were ad free. Quite a few pages were all ads. I know that is how they make their money but I don't think I will renew my subscription due to all the ads. What a bummer.

 

[keljonma]

We stopped subscribing many years ago.

Fortunately, our local public library has all the issues since the beginning of MEN. Those earliest magazines make some interesting reading.

So my suggestion is always, check out your library system.

 

[FarmerChick]

yea I stopped all mag subscriptions. Tony still gets Sportsmen, he says he just has to get or he will die.

online to read articles is easiest and truly Mother Earth got old to me...so old tomatoe plant and same old how to info.

eh, just need a change and save some money from my wallet lol

 

[Buster]

Acres USA and Countryside and Small Stock Journal are two excellent replacement mags. Friends who go way back with MEN tell me the latter is what Mother Earth News used to be.

MEN still has some good articles, though, but I read those at the library for free.

 

[reinbeau]

Personally I'm partial to Backwoods Home magazine. I used to get Countryside, but BWH is more in tune with my views.

 

[miss_thenorth]

Personally I'm partial to Backwoods Home magazine. (slight hijack) I used to get Countryside, but BWH is more in tune with my views.

Reinbeau, you were missed, how are you feeling?

 

[reinbeau]

Personally I'm partial to Backwoods Home magazine. (slight hijack) I used to get Countryside, but BWH is more in tune with my views.

Reinbeau, you were missed, how are you feeling?

Oh, thank you, I'm doing ok, back on doxycycline, though, because of tick bites - started to get the headache, now I recognize it for what it is! I'm trying to get back to my online haunts

 

[calendula]

Countryside is published right in my little city, so I am loyal to it. It's an interesting magazine. I get MEN newsletters in my email though, so I can pick and choose which articles I want to read.

 

[curly_kate]

I agree w/you FC, MEN seems to put out the same articles every issue. So we started getting Grit (same publishing co), and had the same problem. We get Countryside every so often, and I've been meaning to check out Backwoods Home. We do need magazines so DH has something to read in the bathroom!

 

[tortoise]

I agree w/you FC, MEN seems to put out the same articles every issue.

Exactly! And I get peeved that their "green" projects are crazy-expensive and the payback is impossibly horrible! I think it's 1/2-baked. I got my subscription as a gift and I like that is keeps me motivated and thinking - even though I don't find the articles particularly useful.