Oh for crap sakes! Avoid the political bullshit and Mother Earth News has a lot of practical homesteading information. But just in case her husband is looking over her shoulder, the conservative answer to Mother Earth News: Backwoods Home.
Cindie
My parents have every issue of Mother Earth News ever published. I'd say it measures out to at least 10 feet long on the bookshelf.
The further you go back on the Mother Earth issues, the better they were, the 1970's articles being my favorite. I've learned a lot of self sufficiency tips from those.
The newest issues are the ones I wouldn't mind throwing away.
I think I've got them hooked on Backwoods Home, though. It reminds me a lot of the earlier Mother Earth stuff, with the B.S. removed.