The new pioneer magazine??
 

Stumbled on this mag today in lowes. It was $9. Is there only one issue of this mag made every year?

I believe they do one issue per quarter/season.

Yes
 

i think it's qtrly

They had a few articles in this one that I would like to have read but I'm not paying that much for a magazine.

I buy my magazines at the Thrift Store. Sometimes they are 16 cents and sometimes 27 cents each. I have bought 61 magazines this week. When I am finished with them I just take them back and redonate.

I do the same thing John and I particularly like to find old National Geographics and old Popular Mechanics from the 1960s.

I buy magazines from yardsales. Unfortunately, there are some types you just don't find for sale like Backwoods Home.
I love to find the old Country Magazines or even Mother Earth though.

wow, four mags a year at $9 a pop, that is expensive.

I was interested in some of the articles I saw in the mag but not $9 interested.

Just recently, I started checking out magazines at my local library (free). Maybe yours carries it.

Must be for that new fangled pioneering :) Trendy word that is getting to be. All the same, I'll check at the library to see if they have it.

It always makes my day when I find old magazines like this in the Share Shed at the local dump.

I'm in the new issue! Look! On page 38 you can see my, uh, squinty face!

Plus, this issue has an excellent article by the farmstead meatsmith guy on butchering pigs - with good pics!

You're really turning me off to permaculture.

That's okay. I've told 22 million people about permaculture, and the number of people that seem really keen on it is huge. At least big enough for a big article in this magazine, including lots of stuff about me.

And then I'm interviewed on radio shows and stuff.

And I'm going to be the keynote speaker at the southern california permaculture convergence - so i guess there are at least a few folks not turned off.

Oh, and I've now been dubbed The Duke of Permaculture. So Geoff Lawton seems to not be turned off by me.

Some people are turned off by polka music, while others seem to really groove on it. Of course, when people hear polka music and are turned off by it, they usually move on to something else rather than broadcasting that they don't like it.

I got one once. I enjoyed it, but felt that I only learned something from about half of it. Some good articles on solar. But it would be good for somebody new to the idea of homesteading for sure. Not badly done. Not cheap either tho.

You will never find peace until you start loving others more than yourself.

I can check out magazines at 3 different libraries. One has an area where we can bring in magazines and leave them so others can take and read. I found over a year of Mother Earth News. At another library they have Backwoods Home, which I really enjoy reading.

So does this mean that I am some sort of test for you to help you find peace? :)

Cindy IF you expect a magazine to tell you everyting that you dont already know about farming/gardening/homesteading, You must have been born and raised in metro areas.

As to price. Price Small Farmers Journal at I THINK $36. Same 4 issues a year, but 3 times the magazine in content.

I think the is the first time I have seen a magazine that does not do subscriptions. They only wanna sell it on the shelves. And there is pretty much nothing on-line.

When I open any magazine, I fully expect that the good ones will have one article I am interested in. A really good one will have two or three. This one has


1) intro to permaculture - YES! SPREAD THE INFO!

2) paddock shift stuff, including RABBITS as a colony style

3) a geothermal system for hundreds of dollars instead of thousands

4) solutions to farm pond problems

5) process a pig (you can see a picture the hams aging in his kitchen)

6) cooking fireside (I never thought of that refective spit)

7) build a bird bistro (Abe said he is gonna do this and put a fence around it to see what ends up growing there)

8) scrap heap helpers (two really cool ideas there)

I think there are probably five to ten more that others will like but are not so interesting to me.

Ummm... didn't say I expected it to tell me everything I need to know. I just said that it had information that I and many on this board already knew. It's not bad. Just not sure the old timers here would learn a lot from it. =0) For newbies, it is probably very good. Not sure how my opinion of a mag warrants comments. =0)

I don't like polka music, and "I hate spunk."

geo

I got the last issue . I look at the price same as a paperback. I will say this about the one headline on this cover, you cant go back if you have never been there.

There's only so many things that can be said about any particular subject & most subjects have been rehashed over & over in magazines . On top of that you can read endless articles about just about anything for free on the internet .
I have stacks of MEN , COUNTRYSIDE , BACKWOODS HOME , RODALE'S NEW SHELTER & others & while interesting there is nothing in them that isn't easily available for free on the net .
All that being said I don't buy mags anymore . I don't read the one's I have .

I'll have to get to Tractor Supply this weekend (only local place that carries it). One of our maintenance guys at work told me about it so I bought the last one and have been reading it at work when I have down time. (3 months and I've read 2 articles, not much down time)

I may buy this one because you Paul wrote in it.
I have looked at the mag before but never bought it due to the price.

I didn't write in this one. I just got word that they talked about me in it. And when I opened it, i was glad to find that they said nice things (and they warned folks about my vocabulary that may be richer than some churchgoers).

And then I spotted a bunch of other really good articles.

Much like WV (above), I think most magazines seem to be full of boring drivel anymore. So this was a welcome surprise.

Have bought it only a couple of times in the past. It's OK..if you are new to homesteading it would be good to read. But, we are at the point in homesteading that if we aren't doing it now ...we have done it in the past and will probably do it again in the future. I look at the price and say...I could "almost" buy a bag of goat feed for that...!! If you don't go out on the town buying it would be a nice treat for the beginner...

I am at the point where, the things I dont know, and want to learn cant be learned by people showing me, as there all gone. IF I cant see it done in motion, than I cant learn a thing by reading it and seeing sporatic pictures about it.
I wish instead of bank to the farm/garden/homestead books, they had more vids.

I have bought it before, it only comes out 3 times a year, no winter issue. eeek! I share it with friends and family, but still.....