Countryside Network Information

Our Countryside Network comprises four publications and inter-related communities: Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Backyard Poultry Magazine, Goat Journal, and Backyard Beekeeping. Here at Countryside, you’ll find how-to’s, guides, stories, videos and testimonials specifically targeted at those wanting to learn more about simple, self-reliant living. Our audience of thousands reaches us daily through our print and digital resources, including magazines, websites, books, social media, and online courses scheduled to launch this year. Our offices are based and in Wisconsin and Colorado. Everyone on the Countryside team — from our editors to our advertising managers to our digital gurus — believes that tending our gardens, managing our homesteads, raising our livestock and poultry humanely, eating whole food and living sustainably are all worthy pursuits. We believe in the fruits of those labors — an enjoyable and balanced lifestyle. And we are committed to helping anyone learn how to live simply by providing the information you seek quickly and easily — so that you can spend more of your time doing what you love. Our Work It’s not a single idea, but many ideas and attitudes, including a reverence for nature and a preference for country life; a desire for maximum personal self-reliance and creative leisure; a concern for family and community cohesion; a belief that the primary reward of work should be well-being rather than money; a certain nostalgia for the simplicities of the past coupled with the technology, skills, and knowledge of modern day homesteading.