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Self-Reliance Subscription

(24 customer reviews)

Original price was: $35.96.Current price is: $29.95. / year

Self-Reliance (SR) is a quarterly 100-page homesteading magazine that has articles on gardening, canning, cooking, DIY projects, livestock, foraging, and preparedness. SR does not have articles on firearms or politics, believing that readers want a break from controversial topics just as football fans want a break from politics. Whether you live deep in the woods or on the top floor of a high-rise apartment, we truly believe you can enrich your life by becoming more self-reliant.

Please allow 4-8 weeks for your first issue to arrive.

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Weight 10 oz

24 reviews for Self-Reliance Subscription

  1. Rita Caldwell

    We have a 500+ acre farm in southwest Virginia and your magazine has been a treasure trove to me for most of my 70 years. Keep up the great articles and I would like to read more about farming. We have 65 head of beef cattle, and I did have chickens up until last fall and thought I was going to have knee surgery so we sold the birds, less work for hubby. We have honeybees, bass and catfish ponds. We’re hunters, rifle and bow, and keep our freezer full in the winter months with venison of all kinds. Surgery is probably still an issue in the next five years and in the meantime I want to start off again with birds but ducks and turkeys for eggs and meat. I read my magazine from front to back and save them for referring back. We heat our home with woodstoves and have plenty of forested timber to keep us warm in the winter. We make maple syrup and apple cider and I can everything I can get my hands on.

  2. Donna

    We ordered for a Grandson. His subscription was just received. As far as our son could tell, it was well received.

  3. Paula Jones

    I love the wealth of knowledge these magazines have! I plan on keeping this subscription for years to come.

  4. Michelle

    Love the gardening info and the recipes!

  5. David Dallke

    Very good. Only put it down 3 time before I finished It. looking forward for the next issue.

  6. Dawne

    I used to subscribe to both these magazines, and when we moved in 2021, I didn’t renew. I have missed getting these every month! Full of great information

  7. Julie

    Love these magazines. Practical and useful information presented in a readable and useable format. My entire family reads through them consistently.

  8. Shannon Wincek

    I am getting both Backwoods Home and Self-Reliance magazines. These are so informative and I have learned so much. Love all the articles and stories. Its the only magazines I read cover to cover. I always refence back to the magazines if I need to. Can’t wait for my next issues. I am so glad I found these. Love love love them!

  9. Roger

    I subscribe to both Self-Reliance and Backwoods Home magazines and have for several years now. They are the best ones in this area and I always look forward to their arrival, especially when the USPS doesn’t tear them up trying to get them to me!

  10. Roger

    I subscribe to both Self-Reliance and Backwoods Home magazines and have for several years now. They are the best ones in this area and I always look forward to their arrival, especially when the USPS doesn’t tear them up trying to get them to me!

  11. Gail

    Really enjoy this magazine. Easy reading with lots of information. Things new to me and not-so-new but adopting the things I find useful for myself. I do share many of the articles with others who have an interest in the subject matter. So many people depend on the computer for their information, but that’s not like sitting by the wood fire with a good paper document. Keep it up.

  12. Yvonne

    What invaluable publications! Wish I had known about these years ago. Thanks to RuthAnn at Homesteading with the Zimmermans for informing her viewers about Backwoods Home and Self-Reliance. While we don’t have livestock or a big garden, we employ many other aspects of homesteading and a traditional foods kitchen. Even the articles that don’t directly apply to our version of homesteading are impactful and interesting to read. Who knows – maybe livestock and a big garden are in our future. Therefore, I’m saving each issue for my resource library. Keep up the great work!

  13. Mary Werner

    I find this VERY interesting reading. Love the articles and recipes. Love the information. Love to gift this to friends.

  14. Kim Storey LaBarbera

    I love your magazine! I look forward to continuing to learn and be more self reliant.

  15. Marilyn

    I am a 77 year old country kind of woman. We live on a farm. My husband and I have been married 60 years coming up in a couple of months. I follow, on You Tube, a young lady by the name of Ruth Ann Zimmerman from Homesteading with the Zimmermans. She introduced her subscribers to these two wonderful publications of yours. I am thrilled with the content and work that goes in to these two wonderful publications. I even got a special container to keep my new found favorite magazines stored in on my shelf. Ruth Ann was right on the money when she suggested these publications as being well worth every dime. I love them!

  16. Liz

    Something for everyone. Love the homestead advice, the gardening tips, the recipes and articles on how to keep animals! Looking forward to getting the next edition.

  17. Greg Blaser

    I started with backwoods in the early 1990s. I enjoyed it very much and now continue to enjoy it and have just started self-reliance and look forward to reading them both. Iam glad the Duffy family is carrying the tradition on. I look forward to seeing the new people they will bring to the magazines also.

  18. Sharon Oniga

    Love Backwoods Home!
    Received the first issue of Self-Reliance and, for me, it was so-so.
    But, I shouldn’t rate the magazine on one issue.
    I just received the second issue and the articles sound interesting.

  19. Dana

    I love the wealth of knowledge these magazines have! I haven’t received one that I didn’t like. I plan on keeping this subscription for years to come.

  20. Dana

    I love the wealth of knowledge these magazines have! I haven’t received one that I didn’t like. I plan on keeping this subscription for years to come.

  21. Terry

    Backwoods Home and Self Reliance magazines are the only magazines I still subscribe to. There is so much useful information shared in the magazines that there’s something for everyone. I hope for many many years of publication to come.

  22. Sherri

    I love Backwoods Home magazine and have used a lot of the advice within their articles. The magazine is practical and well written. The issue of Self Reliance which I received recently, seems to be geared more for a suburban or apartment dweller, and I find I want to return to Backwoods Home – which they have graciously allowed me to do. I have nothing negative per se with Self Reliance, but found more of my particular rural needs addressed in Backwoods Home. Thank you for a great publication!

  23. Karen Carroll

    Enjoyed it look forward to getting more….

  24. Russell Gibby

    I really like Backwoods Home and Self Reliance magazines. You can read these magazines and learn many things you didn’t already know and learn more about things you did know. They also make you think. The only bad thing about these magazines is the fact that they aren’t enough issues per year.

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