Dear Mother: December 2008-January 2009

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December 2008/January 2009
Letters from our readers 
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Marvin Atchison
Bedford, Indiana

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Inspired and Self-sufficient

Very Interested, After All These Years

I have to say how pleased I am with the direction your magazine is taking. Your last Editorial Survey was wonderful — I was “very interested” in almost everything. At 65, I am still striving toward the same goal: a healthy life with the least amount of impact on the Earth. I purchased the Mother Earth News CD set, but can’t force myself to turn loose of the magazines. I’ve dragged them with me for over 30 years, and the articles are still relevant!

I built a passive solar cedar log home that we moved into seven years ago. We have an Incinolet toilet, which we would like to see more articles about. We’ve had it for six years and love it. We’re going to try building the yogurt maker you have plans for, and the cheese recipes. We’re happy in our little cabin in the woods.

Barbara Gillihan
Fredonia, Kentucky

And Now, a Cow!

Your magazine has always been inspirational, but now you’ve really done it. We already have chickens, geese, horses, burros, dogs, cats and a small garden. Now we also have a yogurt maker, a food dehydrator, more chickens, plans for a bigger garden and, thanks to your cheese-making article, a cow! Next year if all works out, we want to try beekeeping. We figure as groceries and fuel prices keep going up, we might as well be more self-sufficient. Thanks for the help and suggestions.

Marcy Barnes
Sun City, California

Defending the ‘Enviro Agenda’

Do We Read the Same Magazine?

I read the letter in Dear Mother accusing you of having some sort of “liberal-enviro” agenda. I can’t recall reading anything in your magazine that didn’t refer to gardening, homesteading and country living, etc., so I never considered you a political publication. But if advocating for the protection of the environment, our planet and its inhabitants is “liberal,” then I’m proud to be in that category and you can count me among your loyal readers. I cherish every issue of Mother Earth News, especially the ones written in the last few years. Great job, “ladies”!

Valerie Cribbs
Cherry Valley, California

Dispelling Assumptions

I just had to write in about William Simmons’ letter in Dear Mother about women and their “liberal-enviro agenda” ruining Mother Earth News. First of all, I looked, and the staff is hardly all women. Plus, how does he know what kind of experience the staff may or may not have in gardening and farming? The focus of many articles in the past couple years is in response to real problems going on in the world. If we don’t focus on these “enviro agenda” issues and do something to take care of the problems, we will no longer have clean air, clean water, fertile soil, nutritious food to eat or even (possibly) viable seeds to plant.

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