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Post by Jolly on Oct 23, 2023 2:51:16 GMT
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Post by Jolly on Oct 23, 2023 14:33:03 GMT
If you notice at the end, that article was published over 25 years ago.
I can remember surfing MEN's website in the 90's. They had a bunch of their older stuff up for free...And even then, it was the best content they had. People using very limited resources, building and growing their homesteads through ingenuity and sweat.
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Post by daw on Oct 23, 2023 15:53:59 GMT
I can never forget the article on building rocket stoves.
Brick ,yes but putting through the wall..... they used straw. The stove worked excellent. Cold night. Straw caught on fire.Someone did not have common sense.
We had just built the flue for our stove.used a clay thimble for the pipe going through the wall but a bunch of little pieces of brick for the insulation all around the thimble.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Oct 23, 2023 18:57:15 GMT
If you notice at the end, that article was published over 25 years ago. I can remember surfing MEN's website in the 90's. They had a bunch of their older stuff up for free...And even then, it was the best content they had. People using very limited resources, building and growing their homesteads through ingenuity and sweat. I used to have an extensive collection of MEN and Countryside magazines from the 80s and 90s. Far superior to what came after. |
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Oct 23, 2023 19:10:59 GMT
Maybe a couple years ago, someone (was it you, Jolly?) posted a video about a $3,000 house for sale in Ukraine. I’ve been watching videos from that young couple ever since. Anyway, one or two of the houses their family owns have similar wood stoves. They usually are huge, are central to the home, and often have a bed or two next to the stove. I’ve googled them and some are very ornate, while others like those in the homes of this young couple’s family, are extremely rustic…pure utility. Some are so old they appear to make the home a firetrap, but the houses are still standing after all these years. BTW, that young couple is trying to fix up that old house to use, cleaning and painting. Talk about making do with what you have and hard work. I suspect those homes have had almost no updates since they were built, and these people are true homesteaders. |
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Post by FeralFerret on Oct 24, 2023 2:30:12 GMT
Mother Earth News was much better back in the 70s and 80s when I read it faithfully.
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Post by Billy G on Oct 24, 2023 9:22:19 GMT
Some time in the 90's they started putting the same edition out every two years and just changing the covers. Speaking of the covers I suspect they were the inspiration for the phony thumbnails commonly used by u-tube creators today. The Latest...... GREATEST Compact Tractor You HAVE To Buy Today!!!
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Post by joebill on Nov 20, 2023 21:08:19 GMT
I used to read it, too, in the early years, and contemplated submitting a few articles but got my hand slapped by everybody who had tried it. It seemed when they would submit an article, it would get rejected, rearranged in a minor way, then published under the name of one of their staff writers.
At first I could hardly believe it, but kept hearing it from every direction I checked with......Joe
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