A small family-held company doing business in
agricultural periodical and book publishing,
natural farming and stock raising,
alternative farm research/inquiry,
horsedrawn implement research & development
horsedrawn equipment sales,
and related education.

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You do have a choice. At Small Farmer's Journal we believe that if you choose "way of life" all the world benefits. Most particularly you.

Conceived in 1976, Small Farmer's Journal is a large (11 x 14 inch) handsome 132 page black and white quarterly which is more community odyssey than magazine. It is packed to over-full with more information than you might find in three or four conventional magazines. Supported 100% by its readership, this folksy and feisty publication, a true clarion of free speech in the best old sense of the phrase, has been a vibrant and exciting platform for engaging far-flung ideas about anything pertinent to the small family farm experience.
A mixture of the old and the new, you will find articles on;
•Ducks next to discussions about Homeschooling,
•In-depth articles on the mechanics of Manure Spreaders following farmer penned Poetry,
•Information on unusual Livestock breeds adjoining scathing inquiries into Genetic Manipulation,
•Harnessing diagrams along side Sawmilling,
•Tomato Culture up against humorous stories about Life on the farm,
•Organic farming ideas mixed in with Corncobs as fuel,
•Barn-building stories before Horse-powered Ridge Till,
•Piles of amazing Letters tempering the most useful set of small farm related advertisements to be found anywhere,
•Children's fun projects smack dab up against old-time Recipes,
and all of that sort of stuff laced with tenderness, wit and political irreverence.

Small Farmer's Journal is a powerful tool for self-sufficiency, sustainability and community.

Small Farmer's Journal, Inc. is a business built on strong, ethical convictions. These convictions include - but are not limited to - these principles;
¨ People belong in agriculture.
¨ Farming is one of mankind's noblest crafts.
¨ The inherent sustainability of good farming must be protected.
¨ Agriculture must be labor and craft intensive.
¨ Agriculture, and thereby the soil, must not be poisoned for short-term profit.
¨ Genetic and biological diversity must be protected.
¨ The small independent family farm is vitally important to every country's long term economic stability and well being.
¨ The small independent family farm, and its neighboring small town environs, offers the safest, most comfortable, and most rewarding place for people to live and raise a family.

Small Farmer's Journal, the business and it's quarterly publications Small Farmer's Journal and
Farm Romance & adventure (no longer published at this time), are the concepts of the L.R. Miller family. In 1975 the Millers set to work to design a publishing effort which might champion the causes, and advocate the support, of the small independent family-based farms and ranches of North America. The editorial base was expanded to include a most unusual specific added focus - the practical modern application of draft animals for motive power on the farm. From these and other ideas and efforts Small Farmer's Journal was born. In 1997 and `98 Farm Romance & adventure was conceived to be a showcase for the arts and letters of a farm life.

What comes across from every page of SFJ is the reverence for a living-life afforded to those people who feel a natural kinship for that working craftmanship which results in the hand-made farm. SFJ holds that the community of small farmers are not best served by a designation of cultural relic deserving of historical preservation or sympathy. Small farms feed the world. Small farms are vital to everyone's future.

SFJ recognizes that many people rush to "embrace" the precepts of work, place and caring as nostalgic because, in part, they are so often told by mass media, and through public education, that the small family farm (and perhaps even the family itself) is dead. Saying it doesn't make it so. And Small Farmer's Journal has dedicated itself to correcting this dangerous misconception by presentation and example. We at SFJ want to share the exciting, vital, and accessible realities of small independent family farms and the healthy vibrant rural communities they make possible. The small farm is not dead and neither is the family. Far from it. They remain the cornerstones to a healthy humane society. They provide true food, fuel, fiber and shelter security for the larger world. They provide the framework and backdrop for the very best nurturing and rearing of young people. They, both families and small farms, breed a self reliance that is critical fuel for a successful working democracy and a cautious yet growthy capitalism.

Out of a concern for the integrity of the editorial content of the publication Small Farmer's Journal, two important decisions were made and held to from the outset. Number one; SFJ would strive to be inclusive and allow its pages to be a forum for a wide ranging set of topics and agendas so long as a reverence for life, honesty, deserved civility, decency, and tolerance were displayed. Number two; SFJ would strive to protect its pages and general efforts from the insidious pressures that result from a reliance on advertising income. Advertising IS editorial content and has, in SFJ, been treated as such from the beginning.

For twenty-seven plus years Small Farmer's Journal has flowed forth with amazing consistency of purpose and form, diversity of content and voice, and editorial strength. With a readership of 40,000 residing in every state of the union, every Canadian province and 65 additional countries spread around the planet, over the years more than 1.5 million copies of SFJ's issues have made the case for small farms. Yet, even with this significant history, SFJ remains a relatively unknown publication whose publicity has traveled primarily by word of mouth.

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