Mother Earth News Magazine

Pros: Lots of information on lots of topics
Cons: Nothing significant

If you are concerned about the environment and are interested in conserving resources, this magazine should interest you. What I especially like about it is that is not overly preachy. Nor does it attempt to make you feel guilty for using resources you...

Pros: Chock full of tips for sustainable living, costs only $10
Cons: Sometimes a bit repetitive

Review of Mother Earth News Magazine (January 25, 2008) “How to Get Out of the City and Back to the Land” I recall these words printed on early copies of this magazine that were stacked on shelves in the study room in my grandfather’s old farm house. ...

Pros: Saving money, energy efficient tips, and more
Cons: None

As most Americans these days, we are trying to reduce, reuse, and lower our cost of living. Costs of food and gas are rising monthly, sometimes daily! When you are paying $75 to fill up your gas tank and over $6 for a large box of Cheerios, there is ...

Pros: Great information on down-to-earth ideas
Cons: Only bimonthly, goes a little overboard with environmentalism

Whether you live in a suburb with a tiny yard or on a hundred acres so remote you don't even have electricity, Mother Earth News has something for you. This magazine is packed full of information on self-sufficient living, saving money, gardening, and...

Pros: informative, not just for aging hippies ;)
Cons: doesn't come out often enough

My first introduction to Mother Earth News was via a post on a message board overpopulated by fundie homesteaders. Since more than a few of them are using outhouses (and computers, what a mix), I suspected they had alternative uses for the magazine. I...

Pros: A great magazine that helps teach us about saving our planets resources.
Cons: Only out every other month.

If you've read my Epinion on Captain Planet, you know I'm all for conserving and saving our environment. I think Captain Planet would subscribe to Mother Earth News. This magazine is one of my favorite magazines in publication.
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Pros: Very, very informative; environmentally responsible
Cons: dry at times

This magazine is for those people who wish to be less dependent on the less reliable than desired infrastructure of modern living. Chock full of information on how to use alternative fuel sources (such as bamboo), and how to live off a modest plot...

Pros: Lots of different articles to choose from, informative, interesting.
Cons: There are a lot of advertisements

I subscribe to Mother Earth News and I love it. This is one magazine that I save and refer to over and over again. If you need gardening tips, you will find them, and much more. Want to build your own greenhouse? In one issue, there were several...

Pros: Good sound proven advice and techniques
Cons: leaning more to the urban backyarder(but that's not really bad)

Mother Earth News has been a great friend to me for 30 years. I have every issue since the beginning. I like this magazine for it's articles on self sufficiency,boot strap businesses,gardening, animal husbandry,and most of all articles on low cost self...

Pros: So much good information
Cons: none

Mother Earth news is like an old timer, one try to learn all it has to teach us. And this old timer has so much to give for such a great price it is incredible. In this magazine you will find all kinds of articles and other than the article the way to ...

Pros: highly informative, non-shiny pages, great articles, not a ton of ads
Cons: hard to find, only 6 issues per year

You know, if I wanted to, I could take a copy of Mother Earth News into the wilderness and survive just fine. This magazine is for those that are survivalists or, at least, would like to think that they could be.

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Pros: It only comes out once every other month.
Cons: It has way too much advertising.

Do you like to garden? Looking for a new way to grow? Want to be an organic gardener? Want to pay for a magazine that has adds on every other page?
If you answered no to the last one, then read on.

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Pros: Excellent magazine
Cons: none that I have seen

I have been reading Mother Earth News for over 20 years now. I love it. You never know what you will find in there, but you do know that it will always be useful whether you are an urbanite or suburbanite. If you dream of running to the mountains...

Pros: tonnes of informative articles
Cons: not enough isses

What a wonderful magazine. Pages and pages of articles, not ads.. what a big difference. I am not saying there are not ads but you will find more pages of articles on interesting topics then you will pages of advertisements.

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Pros: Large volume of information
Cons: often unbalanced reporting

I began subscribing to Mother Earth News about a year ago, mostly out of curiosity. The general content of the magazine is factual and informative, although many of the proposals put forth are of limited practicality, whether for reasons of geography,...