I LOVE Backwoods Home and Back Home. We have a lifetime subscription to one with the "Whole Shebang" before they stopped doing it and the other we renew every 2/3 years where we bought their anthology 4/5 years ago too. I've Mother Earth too and we've the 40 years cd thingy too. While I enjoy Mother I like their old stuff much better (fyi old Mother was ran by the folks at BWH or BH but I ALWAYS mix them up.). The "new new" Mother is better but seems to be for....those who are just starting to learn "homesteading" skills aka those who like to dip their toe to check the water temperature.
One thing I love is that Backwoods Home shares lives and the journey they have been through. It gives me a sense of being mentored and I love it. And yes there is a lot of gun info and animal butchering but I enjoyed it on a whole even as a vegan/vegetarian of 31-ish years. If an anti-gun vegan can find useful info I think meat eaters can definitely do so too.
~Honey