Backwoods Magazine

[arcadian]

I thought it was about rural living but apparently in recent issues they have gone into full on 'end of world' survivalist mode. Articles talking about how the price of food will skyrocket because of the rising middle class in China and India(how dare they:sarcasm:). Another article talked about stocking guns and ammo. In another article they talk about what they termed as "zombies" which were starving people scrounging around for food at night and breaking into your house to steal your stuff. Crazy. This was at the local library which also has SOF on the racks. Is Backwoods a freeper publication?

[Longtooth]

1. Hum. . .

I saw one of them years ago and it seemed to mostly deal with a simple self sustained life. How to separate wheat, and how to grind it to flour. Saw an article comparing the different types of grinders. Had know idea there were so many different types. Maybe they are seeing a switch in their readership or their readership is asking for information in other areas. The part about people scrounging around for food at night struck a cord with me though. An old friend of mine once caught a Mexican National in his kitchen once stuffing canned goods into a bag. He lives real close to the boarder.

[Cleita]

2. They've always had a weird political slant to things, well maybe not so

weird in the backwoods because that thinking is fairly mainstream there. I always liked the magazine because they really have some good information on living off the grid, some ideas we could adopt here in more developed areas, like solar and other forms of energy and composting toilets for instance. I ignore the politics because it actually comes from ignorance. Until our government wants to put up schools and higher institutions of learning in rural areas even maybe online schools to educate the children of these people, you will witness that kind of mindset. Too many of them home school their children and get their information from their churches whose leaders are often as ignorant about things as them. I don't find them to be freepers but people who really haven't arrived into the twentieth century let alone the twenty-first but they are fertile ground for the freepers and more nefariously white supremacists to evangelize and proselytize to their way of thinking.

[kestrel91316]

5. Definitely caters to the christian homeschool crowd and

tending toward rants about constitutional rights/second amendment issues.......

[Cleita]

3. Duplicate

[kestrel91316]

4. IIRC, BWH does lean conservative. I think they have a column every

month about guns/self defense and cater to the militia crowd. I subscribed years ago, but get more bang for my buck from Countryside/Small Stock Journal.

[Carnea]

6. Zombie proofing your compound is just good common sense nt