My friend Erik Knutzen reviewed Backwoods Home Magazine for Cool Tools:
Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian and you'll have good notion of the editorial outlook of Backwoods Home Magazine. What makes this magazine useful, regardless of your political persuasion, is the wealth of information written by practitioners in the arts of self-reliance. You'll find articles on everything from growing vegetables to baking bread to, yes, cleaning your Glock. Even if you live in the city there's plenty to learn in the pages of BHM, in particular from Jackie Clay, Backwoods Home's resident advice columnist. Clay can parse out and troubleshoot what have become almost lost arts, things like food preservation, soap making and small-scale poultry keeping. The rambling, unedited reader letters and the thrift-store-painting cover art are endearing bonuses.
(Don Childers' illustration of military pig slaughter from "Preparing for Civil Unrest," by Claire Wolfe)
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