Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal

[Chuck]

Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal

A great Christian magazine about Homesteading and Country Living, with articles by folks who are knowledgeable and experienced. Wide range of topics, including what you find on this forum. It's about self-reliance, simplifying life, and learning skills to help plan and prepare for the future.

Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal


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[Kristianna]

Chuck ~ Can you tell me a little more about the Journal? How many pages, what months it is published, etc.

If I subscribe, will I receive the current issue or will I have to wait until the next issue?

Thanks for any info.

Oh, and I'd also like to put a plug in here for Paypal. I have used it for almost 5 years and it is an easy way to pay. If someone pays me for something I can just pull the money from paypal into my checking account and vice versa should I need to pay someone else. Very handy!

[Jenny]

We just updated our Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal web site last night. It's still just one page, but we've included more information. You should click on the link again. It will answer some of your questions.

Each time we started advertising, or did anything to market it, we unexpectedly adopted another child. We were trying to adopt, and wanted each of our children, but none of them came when we expected. God's timing is perfect, although He did throw us for a loop when He sent 3 little blessings to us in one year! ;D

Anyway, we are hoping to get the first issue published this summer. Lots of bugs to work out, though. We'd hoped to have a regular, full size magazine with a color cover and some color pictures in addition to many b/w pictures. But, I just don't think our budget can handle that. Looks like we may have to do a big newsletter that we can print ourselves. That will be easy as long as we're in Dillingham, but once we get back to our homestead it may be a problem to get them flown into town and have someone on the other end who can take care of the mailings. Unless we can get many more advertisers and subscribers, it will be hard to justify chartering all those planes 4 - 6 times a year to ship out newsletters. The flying alone would eat up all the profits and probably send us into a hole. If our internet connection was good enough (say, if we get a good satellite connection) then it may work out to have a printer do it. These are all "bugs" that we uncovered as we were doing other printing and marketing jobs.

Things just don't go as planned sometimes. This is something both of us really want to do, but we need to at least break even on it. Maybe God's trying to tell us something that will make everything fall into place, and we're just missing it.

We've been blessed with a homestead in the Alaskan Bush. It's been a lifelong dream for both of us. What an answered prayer ;D Seems selfish to keep all the blessings of it to ourselves. We've learned sooooooo much by just living there and making lots and lots of mistakes. We really do believe people need to pray about their future, and plan and prepare. So many people are totally dependent on the government as well as "services", but they nearly panic when a storm interrupts their lives for a few days. One of the things we want to do is help folks learn at least enough so they don't feel helpless. That goes back to relying on God rather than man.

There are many country living and homesteading magazines that are very good. Like us, they want to help folks be more independent. But when we say that, we really mean that folks should be less dependent on man and what man has to offer, and become more dependent on God. We chose to make this a Christian magazine because that's what we believe and that's how we try to live our lives.

Jenny
Alaska HOMESTEADING Journal