Back in college I was the girl who had a treadle sewing machine in her room. I read Mother Earth News in the bookstore, and consulted The Farmers’ Almanac. At that time I might have been considered a bit weird, lost somewhere between my parents back-to-the-land generation and the future homesteading movement. I wanted to grow things, to make things, and read book after book about living a more simple life.
I’ve gone from having to search out books published in the ’70′s on homesteading and farming, to finding an entire section of books dedicated to the subject in bookstores, farm stores, and Amazon’s weekly emails. Not only is homesteading the hot subject in book publishing, but every month it seems there is a new farm magazine dedicated to it. Mother Earth News, Grit, Mary Janes Farm, Acres, are some of the older ones, but now you find Capper’s Farmer & Modern Farmer on the shelves too. If you are a long time homesteader, a new age farmer, or maybe you just dream of living a simple, natural life, I encourage you to head over to your local library, bookstore, or TSC and check out some of these great publications.
New Era of Farm Magazines.
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