RE: Organic Gardening Magazine

Marge,
	After Robert Rodale died - he was in a terrible car wreck while on a good
will mission to the organic farmers of Russia - the family hired Mike
McGrath as editor.  I hated his new way of putting the mag together until I
got used to him.  Then I liked him a lot, but the message was so
repetitious.  Recently I saw Mike McGrath's name on some other mag, so I
assume he is no longer with OG.
	One summer while visiting my PA kids, we went to the Rodale Institue - a
300 acre working farm and the Rodale family home.  It was a great ride out
into the Amish country of PA and a fun tour of the farm.  All kinds of neat
things for the kids to see & do too.  I can't remember the name of the
little town it is near, but I bet some of you PA folks on the list
know......Kutzville, Kutztown?  Am I close?

	Pretty much the same thing happened with the National Gardening Assn. mag.
It started out as an inexpensive newsletter printed on newsprint and much of
it written by the readers.  Lots of good homespun advice.  It changed and
became slicker and went to a regular magazine format with professional
writing.  I don't know if they are still in business or not, I've lost track
of them.
	Another mag I enjoyed years ago was Harrowsmith - the journal of country
living.   It covered a much broader base in addition to gardening and
farming.  They went toes up long ago.
	Right now I still take Horticulture and Fine Gardening and have lots of
plant society journals, but I'm kind of bored with all of them.  I'm glad I
have my new Christmas gift books to read!

	Happy Christmas Everyone,

 Marilyn
Portland, Oregon
Where it is partly sunny and 45 F today - making the trip to grandmother's
house ever so much easier


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Marge Talt
Sent:	Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:37 PM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	Re: Organic Gardening Magazine

I subscribed to OG from about 1970 until they changed their 'look'
and got a new editor and started to get severely on my nerves with
their "new" voice.  Now, I just stay annoyed with them because they
continue to send me SPAM and bulk mail garbage and I can't get them
to stop.  It was grand once upon a time when it was a lone voice
crying in the wilderness of chemical soup, but with the untimely
death of the original, idiosyncratic voice, it changed - as all
things do - and IMO not for the better.


Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Cheryl Isaak <cherylisaak@adelphia.net>
>
> >Claire,
> >  I agree that many of us have outgrown OG mag and they do dwell
on organic
> >veggies for sure.  I haven't seen the mag in years, but was a
faithful
> >subscriber for several years as a novice gardener.
>
> Marilyn,
>
> I got very frustrated with OG - the message was too strident after
> awhile.  I took the composting to heart but got highly annoyed with

> the "science" they presented.  Often it seemed the result was
> preordained - chemicals were bad.  I think the final straw was the
> stream of vitriol after an ad for a prescription arthritis medicine

> was published.  I actually felt sorry for the entire staff after
that
> go round and never renewed.
>
> Cheryl
> --
> Cheryl Isaak
> Londonderry, NH
> AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
> growing, stitching and reading in NH
>
>
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