Any Countryside mag readers?

**madhen** · 11-02-2008, 03:26 PM

They had a pretty good article re: homestead finance in the last issue.

**nodmicks** · 11-02-2008, 05:20 PM

I borrow it from the library occasionally. It is very interesting.

**fixer** · 11-03-2008, 12:44 PM

I have read Countryside for at least 15 years.(getting to the point in life where they all run together!) I look forward to it more than anything else I read. It lets me know that common sense is not completely gone.

**madhen** · 11-03-2008, 09:04 PM

I've been a subscriber for only about four years. Last year, I finally decided to give up all the back issues I had been hoarding "just in case."

I do tend to read, then re-read every issue! Love that mag! I'm surprised more people on this site aren't addicted to it!

**fixer** · 11-03-2008, 10:36 PM

I am also surprised more people don't read countryside. I hoarded my old issues until I filled a closet. Then I decided that it was becoming ridiculous. I still remember the first time I found it on the newsstand. It was amazing to realize there were others who thought like I do. I have much respect for how people got by without our modern conveniences. They not only got by but in most cases did very well. There is a lot to be said for a simple life.

**lovestoread** · 11-04-2008, 07:20 AM

I started Countryside in the summer of '99, and even bought some back issues online..... I, too have kept all of these....I used to go back and reread some of them, but haven't done that for quite some time.....Even though I don't live this way, I do use alot of what I get out of the mag. I do , however, dream of living this way someday.......maybe, maybe not....you never know....But I do love love love this magazine.....Did you know they have a forum specifically for Countryside
rs? Let me know if you would like the link and I will get it for you......

Sheri

**madhen** · 11-04-2008, 08:47 AM

I'd be interested in taking a look at the forum, Sheri. Thanks for the heads up!

I am about a third of the way there. Haven't gone off grid and don't have a solar oven, but I do have goats.

**lovestoread** · 11-04-2008, 11:30 AM

www.homesteadingtoday.com lots to look at....since you have goats , they have lots of info on that and everything really.......Enjoy.....

**TexasPeanut** · 11-04-2008, 12:03 PM

We read Countryside often, I keep saying I need to just subscribe and be done with trying to locate it all the time. We don't live entirely the way we would like to and what the magazine talks mostly about but we live a very simple life. One day we hope to go even farther with our simple living. We always enjoy reading about simple living and learning for that "what if" time. Another great magazine along those same lines but with more of a "outdoorsman" feel to it is The Backwoodsman Magazine. It's great for learning simple ways of hunting, fishing, making you own canoe, outdoor cooking, knife making, etc. DH loves that magazine.

**fixer** · 12-10-2008, 11:26 AM

I just received the new issue and love everything in it. There is a good section on beginning homesteading. If anyone out there is thinking about it, I would highly recommend reading it. It has a lot of tips from people who actually do it.

**Goodwin17** · 12-10-2008, 03:11 PM

I love this magazine, and started my subscription to it in Sept. I have been reading it for about 4 or 5 years now. On my birthday this year my husband let me get some of my favorite magazines as subscriptions for my gift. So far I've gotten Mother Earth News, Back Home, and Countryside. I'm going to ask to get some more of my favorites for Christmas. I want to get Grit, Backwoods Home, and Hobby Farm. My immediate family know I read these magazines, but others would think I'm strange. I'm totally addicted to learning about a lifestyle that I really don't lead. I'm don't have any land to do any homesteading. I am however going to start doing some things this coming year. Learning to cook from scratch, square foot/raised bed gardening, rain barrels, growing my own herbs, buying locally, canning and dehydrating food, building a solar cooker/dehydrator. Last year for Christmas I bought myself the 5 disc set of Mother Earth News that has every issue from the beginning (1970 I think) until 2007. I don't know when I'll ever have time to read it all!

**madhen** · 12-10-2008, 03:14 PM

Goodwin17,

I know what you mean about seeming strange. I had someone eyeing me suspiciously when I started talking knowledgeably about composting toilets the other day.

**fixer** · 12-10-2008, 03:39 PM

I could not agree more with Goodwin17. I subscribe to all of the mags you mention. I don't travel so this is my escape. Even if I don't do everything I read about, I am inspired by those who do.