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Hearth & Field

Premium Subscription

Quarterly Print Collection + Upgraded Digital + Lovely Gifts

What will I get?

 

Our gorgeous quarterly print collection — four full-color editions per year. This is a large, beautiful, useful volume: perfect-bound and printed on heavy, silky-white paper.  You’ll want to keep it your whole life and collect them all.

 

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What else will I get?

  • Extra & upgraded email content — such as helpful essays, exclusive interviews with contributors, poetry, recipes, gardening aids, inflation-fighting tips, et cetera. In other words, it’s like unto our standard (free) newsletter but more so.
  • A Hearth & Field mug. A small pottery company in Wisconsin makes hand-thrown mugs for us.  We have three beautiful styles to choose from.
  • A Hearth & Field leather bookmark. We are procuring four cowhides via a leather craftsman (also in Wisconsin), who is making them into strikingly unique bookmarks, with an H&F monogram, for all subscribers (well, for at least the first four-cowhides’ worth of subscribers) .


Do people like it?


They seem to. 

Here are a few things folks have said:


Do I get anything else?

Yes.  You’ll also receive:

  • Occasional audio versions of select articles, read by actual human beings.
  • A deeper integration into H&F’s splendid community of readers, writers, and editors.
  • The unmitigated, intoxicating thrill of knowing you are helping H&F grow and expand its reach.
  • Let’s see . . . what else . . . Did we mention the heavy, silky-white paper? Oh, yes it seems we did.  It’s very nice.

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How much does it cost?

$9.50 per month (or $114 per year).  And you don’t have to pay anything until after you’ve received your first issue. 


Why should I buy it?

In short, because it will help you be less frantic and more grounded. Which is well worth the price.  We can explain in more detail if you want (see below).  But first, here’s the super quick-n-easy sign-up form.

 (More info below the form, if of interest.) 

Hearth & Field

—Print Premium—

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(or $114 per year)


We just need your mailing info and your first issue will be on its way — no payment till after you get it. You can cancel at any time.

Your name

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Wait — You didn't ask me for payment information!

 
  • Right, no payment info is needed today.  A.K.A. buy now, pay later. 
  • You’ll be able to pay by credit card or electronic check. We’ll follow up with you later with an invoice and instructions.  We trust we can trust you for it.


So, is the free version still available?


Yes.  We’ll continue to send our free monthly newsletter and have hundreds of non-paywalled articles freely available on the web. 


In that case, I'm happy with the free version. Why should I upgrade?

Because it will . . .

  • Ground you deeper in reality. When you read about real life while seeing, smelling, touching, and hearing the rustle of the pages of our beautiful journal, you will experience everything therein with a stronger sense of presence. Take the opportunity to hold Hearth & Field in your hands and connect to it with all your senses. (Except for taste: we don’t recommend tasting our print editions. The recipes are good though.)


  • Give you a lasting resource. H&F print issues are designed to be kept over time and built up into a collection, which we hope will be a deep but human-paced resource on the good and grounded life. Something to which you can refer again and again. Something to which you can direct your children. This is not some skim-it-then-scrap-it flimsy little thing — our print collections are made to be kept, offering you a lasting item to consult and treasure. Down with the throwaway culture!


  • Pay for itself (in the literal sense of the word) numerous times over.  We offer you perspectives, skills, and insights worth vastly more than the cost of entry. You can quickly save enormously more than that by following our articles, implementing what they suggest, embracing home production and alternative economies, and engaging in real, restorative work and leisure as outlined in our pages. You’ll also be more secure and insulated from the winds of inflation, supply train disruption, and other such fragilities.


  • Direct you toward a more integrated life in which your work and your leisure and that of other members of your family are less often at odds and more often symbiotic and uniting. Every age, every vocation, every kind of work, and each of the two sexes plays a role in the vision of the good life held by H&F.


  • Help you grow in virtue & excellence while resisting perfectionism. We are here to work together to develop greater focus, enjoyment, and connection with our natural world, our families and neighbors, and our God, not to place impossible burdens on ourselves or one another. We write, read, work, play, and discuss with humility, charity, and hope.


  • Give you a meaningful role as regards H&F itself. Our special sections and e-mails for paid subscribers bring you into the conversation, asking for your help in refining techniques and recipes, diving further into questions brought up by previous articles and reader comments, and inviting you to participate in curated discussions with our editors and contributors so we can get to know each other better, since we can’t (alas!) just chat with you over the backyard fence. We are herein inviting you to be an active part of the Hearth & Field project.


  • Engage you in supporting the broader mission. As mentioned above, we are committed to continuing to make the free components of H&F widely available — this is because there is a core missionary aspect to what we are doing, the sort of thing you cannot charge people for if you want as many people as possible to encounter it.  Thus there has never been a cost.  And we are ad-free. But we try to pay our writers well, there are many significant expenses in running our operations, and so on; free is not actually free. By becoming a paying Print Premium subscriber you will not only get tremendous value for yourself and your family, you’ll also help us continue the free tier for the wider world.


  • Foster authentic joy. These are strange times to be alive — which makes them fairly similar to all previous times.  And regardless of the times, the saints within the times seem invariably to be joyful. We do not mean inanely chipper, nor void of tears, nor blithely unaware of the suffering of a broken world (rather the opposite). But we do mean that through it all, the saints are not gloomy, not pessimistic: They are ever taken up in the calm, assuring joy that flows through all creatures who are properly oriented toward creation and its Creator. It is our hope and intent that Hearth & Field might play some small role in regularly reminding us all of that — both readers and writers — reminding us to let ourselves be taken up in this cosmic flow, this joy of the saints.  For that is our real business on Earth.  Per G.K. Chesterton, “Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; joy is the uproarious labour by which all things live.”


Is there anything more you guys wanted to say?


No, don’t think so.  That was already rather wordy. We probably need to get back to work on the next print edition. But we’re happy to
answer any questions you may have.

Incidentally, you can cancel any time. And, again, you don’t even have to pay anything yet. We’ve tried to make this absolutely as easy as possible.  You have nearly nothing to lose. And think what you can gain.  (Okay, we retract the above; apparently there were more things we wanted to say.)

The goal is to live a life of ever-deepening goodness, truth, and beauty — which, happily, means a life that is also steadier, more secure, and very likely less costly.  In other words, less frantic and more grounded. Sign up today.

(Alrighty, that’s your cue — take it away. You’re on. It’s all you from here.  Go ahead and scroll back up and fill out that super quick-n-easy form now. )

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