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Subject: [SANET-MG] American Small Farm Magazine Returns to Publication
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:05:23 -0500
From: Nature's Pace Sanctuary <herm.naturespace@EARTHLINK.NET>
Reply-To: CEO@Back40Group.com
Organization: Back 40 Group, Incorporated
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For Immediate Release:

Herman Beck-Chenoweth

American Small Farm & Country Life Magazine

1 Forest Lane

Hartshorn, Missouri 65479

573.858.3244


Announcing the Return of American Small Farm Magazine

American Small Farm, a nationally published farm magazine founded in
1992 by Magnet Communications and purchased in 2000 by Andy Stevens and
Marti Smith has been acquired by Back 40 Group, Incorporated of
Hartshorn, Missouri and will expand from 10 issues to 11 per year and
will also become the first fully digitized Sustainable Farming magazine.
The name of the publication is also broadening to American Small Farm &
Country Life" to indicate a wider focus on subjects of interest to all
rural residents. Additionally, the magazine's average number of pages
will increase from 24 pages to 50 -- 60 per issue.

Herman Beck, Chief Executive Officer for Back 40 Group, states that Paul
Berg, formerly the Editor of Small Farm Today magazine has been hired to
head up the division and Rebecca DeCourley will serve as the magazine's
Art Director. [b]The magazine will be a fully optimized web-based
publication.[/b]

Focus of the Magazine:

"American Small Farm & Country Life is a general-circulation digital
magazine, directed to hobby and small farmers and those simply living
(or wishing to live) in the country. We serve the needs of Organic and
Market Farmers selling high-end products to restaurants & at farmer's
markets. We also have readers who are hobby farmers and homesteaders,
and those living in rural areas near larger, suburban areas. They raise
traditional livestock like cows, horses, goats, pigs and chickens,
alternative livestock and fruits & vegetables. The magazine caters to
the on-farm aspects of rural living as told by knowledgeable experts and
stories written by our readers. This base of readers is growing younger,
more affluent and live and produce in the only expanding area of
agriculture world-wide."

A demo of the publication can be viewed on-line at
http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication/?I=71728 . Live links will allow
readers to access web resources such as a monthly calendar of events and
access, to advertisers web sites and resource information included in
articles. American Small Farm & Country Life will be the first farm
magazine in America to be exclusively a web-based publication and will
also be available in formats suitable for mobile devices such as Kindle,
Nook and I-Phones. The first issue is scheduled for November 20th
publication.

In addition to the magazine, all trademarks, back issues and editorial
content for the past ten years is included and ALL articles will be
archived for use by current subscribers and also available for purchase
and download by non-subscribers as well. American Small Farm & Country
Life will also continue to co-sponsor the Center for Small Farms exhibit
area at the Ohio Farm Science Review held each year near Columbus, Ohio.

The Review, held every year since 1962, welcomes over 500,000 visitors
over three days and ran this year from September 20 -- 22nd. Back 40
Group divisions have been actively involved in the show since 2006. The
trade show area will continue to be anchored by the Back 40 Books &
Music Store and Back 40's Pleasant Valley Productions Division will
continue to provide sound re-enforcement and video taping services to
extension presenters. The completed videos will continue to be marketed
by Pleasant Valley Productions through a continuing agreement with The
Ohio State University. All presentations will be available as instant
downloads via computer or on HD DVD.

You may want to visit the magazine's new web site at
http://www.SmallFarm.com <http://www.SmallFarm.com/>. The web site
contains contributor information and writers & photographers guidelines
as well as subscription options.

TO SUBSCRIBE:
http://www.back40books.com/get_item_asfm.htm]http://www.back40books.com/get_item_asfm.htm 

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Back 40 Group is a vertically-integrated technology firm based on a 175
acre Missouri research farm founded in 2005. For more information the
company can be reached at 573.858.3244 or via e-mail at CEO@Back40Group.com

Visit the American Small Farm & Country Life Bookshelf:

http://www.back40books.com/get_dept_1209.htm