Mother Earth News | 
| Publisher: Ogden Publications Inc
List Price: $29.94
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Trade magazine
Subscription Issues: 6
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 6
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16 Weeks
ASIN: B00007AZRH
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Product Description
A country lifestyle publication that helps readers with how-to information on home improvement, organic gardening, small business development, outdoor recreation, wood working projects, and natural country cooking from scratch.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 "lost its compost" for a while but slowly getting back to nature July 30, 2005
Fenimore (Mountain Deserts of Southwest US)
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Somehow, the Mother became more like something else... Sunset? I dunno, but it really lost its way from the down-to-earth, get-down-in-the-dirt, raise-chickens-in-your-backyard-&-fertilize-with-the-rest viewpoint.
I miss the newsprint, non-glossy paper, the substantive articles for people who really are living off the land, not cruising over it in SUV's and entertaining themselves with dreams of organic lavender.
That said, it seems to be coming around the corner to its old self again, but it's a long, slow, return I think. I am heartened by the direction it is taking, and subscribe once more to hope it'll keep going that way. I mean, just the glossy paper alone makes it suspect amongst my crew! I'll hide it when the purists come, and hope it keeps getting back to the Earth.
I want more July 18, 2002
perry bailey (Mesa, AZ)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
Dear Mother, I have been a loyal subscriber for the last 3 or 4 years and have enjoyed your magazine but.....
I have purchased some of your older magazines from used book stores and found a lot more info in them. I realize the price of the magazine is low to attract more subscribers but I'd rather pay more and get more. I'd like to see you charge twice as much and do twice as many articles on do it yourself farm projects etc. A major problem some companies encounter regarding cashflow is that they often try to get involved with too many external projects. I don't believe the magazine has any obligation to fund anything other than producing a well researched and well written rural living magazine. Which you do. I'm only hoping that you are not wasting valuable funds (funds you could be putting into fantastic articles) championing green causes. Please leave that to those who don't have better things to do with their time and money. I'm looking at an issue from July/Aug 1982 and WOW, is it packed with great how to articles, country recipes etc. I love this style of magazine but please, please, please, cut out any waste, charge more and provide more.
Perry Bailey
Almost as good as it used to be August 29, 2002
Carol A. Fuhr (Florissant, MO USA)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
TMEN used to be fabulous, full of articles on self-sufficiency. Then it turned into a yuppie rag, full of ads for credit cards and expensive vehicles. Now, slowly, it is returning to its former, true self. Continue on the path, Mother; you are heading in the right direction.
 Getting better August 18, 2003
Michael J Edelman (Huntington Woods, MI USA)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
When I first subscribed to Mother (as fans refer to it) it was an excellent back-to-the-earth journal inspired by the flight of so many 1960s people back to the earth, to rural communities, and to a kind of self-sufficiency. It was pretty much a handbook foir the beginning farmer, homesteader (rural or urban) or communitarian. But during the 1980s and 90s Mother took a very different turn. Gardening and self-sufficiency became, well, fashionable, for want of a better word and Mother was transformed into a sort coffee table book for yuppie wannabe farmers. Gone were practical articles on recycling animal waste, replaced by colorful spreads with little practical information of any kind. I dropped my subscription as did many other old-timers. A few years ago Mother rediscovered its original roots. It's still a thin, glossy mag rather than the thick, plain paper handbook of self-sufficiency it once was, but it's getting better. I haven't resubscribed but at least I buy the occasional issue now.
 The best magazine around! July 15, 2002
A. Carpenter (Tampa, FL United States)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Mother Earth News is one of the best progressive minded magazines around. If anyone thinks this magazine is just for hippies who love nature, than that's fine with me. People who don't read this magazine have no idea how much useful information is packed into every issue. Anyone interested in a subscription, I think it is a great investment. Hopefully more people will start reading this magazine, especially those who used to, so we can get our Mother healthy again.
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