FROM SCRATCH Magazine

life on the homestead

Read the First Issue

66 Comments

  1. How great an edition or addition!
    We are just going to get our South African Boar goat bred Feb 1.
    We have had nannys before and are looking forward to it again. We love the milk and cheese.

  2. Love it!! Great job!

  3. Great job! Love it and hope maybe one day you can take it to print.

  4. I have not yet started reading the magazine, but my hearts very excited. To locate this magazine brings grate joy to my heart.
    Thank you for your time.
    Barbara Knight

  5. This looks great! Thanks so much for putting it all together!

  6. I loved reading your first addition it’s fun,fresh and informative. Roll on the next issue x

  7. Looks to be full of great topics, but it does not seem to be iPad compatible. I spent 10 minutes trying :(

  8. In a word “EXCELLENT”

  9. great magazine.look forward to the next issue

  10. Fantastic first issue!!!! Really enjoyed the articles and beautiful pictures. Can’t wait for the next edition.

  11. This is wonderful! The photography is beautifully done. The information is helpful, and the overall feel is simplistically luxurious in its farm edge. Congratulations!

  12. I’m impressed! This is a wonderful magazine: very informational and fun to read, in addition to being well laid out and beautiful!

    I want to thank you, not only for the great read, but also for featuring my pin cushion in the Sewing Section of your magazine. It’s much appreciated and I hope I can participate again in the future!

    Thanks so much! Awesome job well done!

  13. Will this be available for iPad? Great read for sure. I love the quote “Chickens are the gateway drug to a farming lifestyle” it is so true! :)

    • I agree! I also thought that one of the proper names for a goat ‘herd’ was quite appropriate. Yes, goats are a ‘trip’!

  14. What a magical afternoon I have spent recovering from pneumonia and reading this really delightful magazine…didn’t fall asleep once. Can’t wait for the next one!

  15. EXCELLENT!!!! Our wait was worth every minute, congrats!!!!!!!!

  16. Great first edition! Can’t wait to dive into the next one! Of course I will be rereading this edition in the meantime.

  17. Very nice first edition. Is there a way to save it for future reference (or did I overlook that)?

  18. Thoroughly enjoyed pouring over the first issue. Can’t wait for the next one!

  19. Thank you for the great issue! I even got some new web resources. Looking forward to next month!

  20. Is there a way to download the issue so I can read it without having to be online? A PDF of the magazine would be great. That way I could also keep specific articles.

    Thanks for a great magazine!!

      • Thank you for the PDF Format! Now I can print the articles I want to keep in front of me…yes, I still like the “paper”.

    • Great! I love that the PDF is available. Again, great job guys and gals! This magazine is a wonderful read! Thanks!

  21. Great first edition. Nice photography, good information. I look forward to coming editions and am passing along the website. Thanks!

  22. Awesome photography and content! Shared it on Facebook.

  23. Haven’t had a chance to “really” read YET but look forward to doing so. As stated before…they photos are beautiful and it appears to be an interesting, thoughtful magazine. Have been forwarding the info to others whom I think will enjoy. GREAT WORK.

  24. Just got the first issue and it was even better than I had expected.
    I have forwarded the link to my friends because I am sure they will love it too. Is there a way to print out a page. I would love to have a print out of the germination chart to keep with my seeds. That is the best one I have seen.

  25. Very enjoyable! I think I’ll now head off to the antique shop to see what I can find to dress up/characterize the coop a little more!

  26. Wonderful! I can honestly say this was the first magazine that I’ve ever read cover to cover and enjoyed every single page (I even read all the ads!). There are beautiful photos, inspiring stories and who doesn’t love recipes? Like Tammy, though, I’d like to know if we’ll be able to refer back to the older issues when the new ones come out?

    • Yes, all the older issues will still be available online once the new ones come out!

  27. This is like reading a best seller but better.Keep up the great work-I absolutely love it.

  28. Is this available in Kindle.. or downloadable format? Maybe a pdf?

  29. Love it! This first issue is wonderful! Thanks for providing a nice resource. :)

  30. Fantastic! Just what I was looking for.

  31. I’ve always thought I was nuts, loving everything from scratch, but now I know that there are more of us. THANK YOU!!!!

  32. I love this magazine! I wish I could have coffee with all your writers just to ask questions, etc. Thank you so much for sharing all of this with us. I can’t wait for the next issue!!

  33. Very nice. I really enjoyed my first issue and look forward to the next. I shared on FB.

  34. I have tried the link for downloading to my iPad repeatedly all day & can’t see anything other thn cover much less download to iBook! Help! I have been looking forward to FromScratch for weeks!

  35. I am very impressed with your first issue. You have done an outstanding job and the pictures are very professional. Keep up the good work, looking forward to the next issue.

  36. Is there a way we can print it out so we cvan keep it as a paper copy.

  37. Beautiful first issue! I especially enjoyed the article Lessons in a Seed Catalog. It was particularly timely for our family. Thanks for including homeschooling among your topics!

  38. This is an awesome beginning! I am going to be getting my first angora rabbits and learning to spin this year! I will also be expanding our garden beds to include more vegies. This magazine is going to be a godsend!
    Regards,
    Beth P

  39. Thoroughly enjoyed reading your magazine. I appreciate all your hard work and creativity in putting it all together.
    How about doing an article on seed balls?

  40. I just LOVE this magazine :) We are looking to get more into a homesteading and self reliane lifestyle and have started with the garden and chickens… but this gives me confidence we can do more :)

  41. Great first issue! How long are the issues going to be archived? Indefinitely?

  42. Altogether beautiful!

  43. Totally enjoyed your first edition and looking forward to more, love this lifestyle. Thanks.

  44. Excellent mag, I’m a very new allotmenteerist, but a wannabe smallholder living in wales , uk . Look forward to next issue.

  45. Beautiful magazine! I look forward to reading it thoroughly. The “cover goat” looks just like our kinder milk goat, Keely. We just love our goats and our GOS pig family and our Saxony ducks. We are new homesteaders and are learning so much about raising our own Real Food. Kudos to you!

  46. Melissa…congratulations on a job well done! It is a beautiful magazine. Thanks for getting the word out that it’s readable in just about every format. Appreciate very much being allowed to contribute a little something for the premier issue.

  47. I just got your email feed of an article about making your own detergent. Can you use it in HE machines?

  48. Great magazine. I love getting the emails telling me there is something new. Thanks for all you do for us “homesteader wantabees”.

  49. My husband and I are both from the country, but living in the city. I LOVE this magazine. Makes me work harder to get us out of an apartment and into our own home where we can do a little more homesteading and little less lift-living. Awesome!!!

  50. Can you make the first edition a downloadable PDF like the second? I’d love to put it on my Kindle.

    • I agree, I’d like to be able to download to read on my tablet when I am not at home (wifi, no 4g).

      Thank you

  51. Great Job, Melissa. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire magazine. I grew up on a small farm in Hungary and have had the yearning to go back to that simple life. My friend and I are embarking on this venture this year….thank you for this wonderful insight. peace, love, strength and kudos!!!!

  52. Love this magazine! I want more of this in my life…homesteading! I am however having a issue being able to download this first issue to a PDF like I did with the second issue. I’ve tried the above links from other comment-ers but it doesn’t lead anywhere. Would you please be able to provide a link where I can download the file as a PDF so that I can put it on my Kindle? Please and thanks!

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