{"alternate_names": ["\"Better Homes and Gardens\"", "Better Homes & Gardens", "Better Homes and Gardens.", "Editors of Better Homes and Gardens", "\"Better Homes and Gardens\".", "BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS", "Better homes and gardens.", "Better Homes & Gardens Editors", "Better Homes And Gardens", "'better Homes and Gardens'", "Better Homes And Gardens Editors", "Better Homes and Gardens Books Editors", "Staff of Better Homes & Gardens", "Editors of Better Homes & Gardens", "Editors of Better Homes And Gardens", "BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS.", "Author Better Homes & Gardens(R) Magazine", "Diocesan Church Society of New Brunswick", "Better Homes and Gardens Books (Firm)", "Better Homes and Gardens Books", "Better Homes and Gardens; Leisure Arts", "Better Homes & Gardens; Leisure Arts", "Better Homes Better Homes and Gardens"], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "*Better Homes and Gardens* (stylized as Better Homes & Gardens and abbreviated as BHG) is the fourth most widely circulated magazine in the United States. *Better Homes and Gardens* focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by Dotdash Meredith (formerly Meredith Corporation).\r\n\r\nBetter Homes and Gardens was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who  served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson and had previously founded the magazine *Successful Farming*. The original title was *Fruit, Garden and Home*. The name was changed to Better Homes and Gardens beginning with the August 1924 issue.\r\n\r\nISSN, WorldCat: 0006-0151\r\nOCLC: 5902855\r\n\r\nSubjects:; Architecture, Domestic; Architecture, Domestic Periodicals; Cooking; Cookbooks; De\u0301coration inte\u0301rieure Pe\u0301riodiques; Fruit-culture; Fruit-culture Periodicals; Gardening; Gardening Periodicals; Interior decoration; Interior decoration Periodicals; Jardinage Pe\u0301riodiques; Jardins Architecture Pe\u0301riodiques; Landscape gardening; Landscape gardening Periodicals; Periodical; Periodicals"}, "links": [{"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Homes_and_Gardens_(magazine)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Official Website", "url": "https://www.bhg.com/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "WorldCat", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0006-0151", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "name": "Better Homes and Gardens", "photos": [14861378], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "key": "/authors/OL2727286A", "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-29T13:35:46.876380"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-18T14:52:51.947562"}}