{"id":3824,"date":"2009-07-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-05T20:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T14:35:24","slug":"backwoods-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/backwoods-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Backwoods Home Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian and you&#8217;ll have good notion of the editorial outlook of <em>Backwoods Home Magazine<\/em>. 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&#8217;ll find articles on everything from growing vegetables to baking bread to, yes, cleaning your Glock. Even if you live in the city there&#8217;s plenty to learn in the pages of <em>BHM<\/em>, in particular from Jackie Clay, <em>Backwoods Home<\/em>&#8216;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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Backwood Homes<\/em> converges with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/mother-earth-ne-1\/\">Mother Earth News<\/a><\/em> in terms of subject matter lately, but where <em>MEN<\/em> is liberal\/progressive <em>BHM<\/em> is libertarian. <em>MEN<\/em> is professional, <em>BHM<\/em> homespun. <em>MEN<\/em> is rock and roll. <em>BHM<\/em> is country.<\/p>\n<p>And what makes <em>Backwood Homes<\/em> magazine different from other DIY publications is that all of the columnists walk the walk in addition to talking the talk. They don&#8217;t just theorize, they actually do the things they write about. While the Libertarian rants may be off-putting to some, with what I&#8217;ve witnessed of our local government in action, the more I tend to agree. Even if I may never shoot, skin and make raccoon stew, I can appreciate the self-reliant activities profiled in BHM as part of an essential American skill set that needs to be recovered. We urban dwellers have been too busy in recent years with less useful activities such as selling mortgages and collateralizing debt obligations. Time for some tasty squirrel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical ideas for self-reliant living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}