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The feed vs. the magazine

The feed
Backwoods Home
Forty conflicting hot takes on how to do anything.
One way that works, from someone who did it last month.
The algorithm decides what you see next.
You decide, on the porch, at your own pace.
An ad every four posts, forever.
About 90% fewer ads than a typical magazine.
Gone the second you scroll past it.
On your shelf for decades. Readers keep every issue.
Engagement.
Tomatoes. Firewood. A fixed fence.
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A 116-page magazine, four times a year. No feed. No algorithm. Almost no ads. Written by people who garden, build, and homestead for real, and can teach you to do the same.

★★★★★ 4.9 from 215 reader reviews · 130,000+ readers

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Four seasonal issues a year · Ships free in the US · Cancel anytime

Subscriptions renew automatically each year at the regular rate so you never miss an issue. You can cancel at any time by email, phone, or online.

Backwoods Home + Self-Reliance

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Self-Reliance is our sister magazine: 100 pages an issue on gardening, cooking, DIY, livestock, foraging, and off-grid living, with almost no ads. Together that's over 200 pages of hands-on reading every season.

This discount is valid for your first subscription year. Subsequent years renew automatically at the regular rate. Cancel anytime by email, phone, or online.

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Since 1989 · 130,000+ readers

Paper holds up.

Backwoods Home has been in print for 37 years, through every platform and feed that promised to replace it. Each issue is 116 pages of hands-on, seasonal know-how: gardening, livestock, building, cooking, energy, and country living, written by people who actually live this way.

Every cover is an original painting. Every issue is worth keeping. It's made to be read on the porch, then put to work outside.

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Cancel anytime by phone, email, or online. If you cancel partway through your term, we refund the unused portion, prorated.

From verified buyers

People who made the trade

★★★★★
"Call me old school, but I spend too much time on a computer and like the easy reading on paper. And it gives me a library of past issues to review."
Ward Faulk  ✓ Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"This magazine makes my heart smile. I'm a millennial, new to the homesteading and DIY world. The content is very helpful and the pictures are so wholesome. So different than mainstream magazines."
Mony Brady  ✓ Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"Every issue catches my interest immediately. Very impressed with the quality of the content, the ease of reading, and a magazine without massive advertising."
Wendy J Hoffman  ✓ Verified Buyer
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We send new subscriber files to our printer every week, and your first copy goes out in the next batch. Periodical mail moves slowly, so allow a few weeks for it to reach your mailbox. Digital access is immediate with a Digital or Print + Digital subscription.

Four times a year. Each issue is 116 pages, timed to the season, and worth keeping on the shelf for good.

Your subscription renews automatically each year at the regular rate so you never miss an issue. You can turn off auto-renewal or cancel whenever you like.

Anytime, by phone (541-250-5134), by email, or online from your account. If you cancel partway through your term, we refund the unused portion, prorated.

Yes. Every issue comes in a digital edition. Choose Digital by itself, or Print + Digital to get the printed copy in your mailbox and the digital edition too.

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