I used to love this mag. Still check it once in a while
I could read it and daydream about my solar powered log cabin and homegrown food for hours.
Most of these types of mags are very lefty, but backwoods home has a western, libertarian, leave me the hellalone vibe.
They don't promote this back to basics lifestyle to "save the planet", they do it so people can get away from idiots and live their own lives...hehe.
I really couldn't imagine this bunch voting for Kerry to begin with.
My wife subscribed to it a while back, I think to get gardening articles. I hadn't heard of it until it started showing up in the mail.
I suspect it may serve as a sort of political/cultural "outreach" medium to the granola and birkenstock crowd who read it for the content (what TMEN used to carry), and get "infected" with the flavor of freedom.