Even those living in urban or suburban areas can embrace the homesteading lifestyle by starting small in their backyards.

The homesteading pros at Gold Shaw Farm highlight the smartest locations to begin a farm or homestead. Here’s who pays when ...

We frequently use the term ‘homestead’ and ‘homesteading’ in articles in Mother Earth News. The term ‘homesteading’ may be familiar, but its usage can cause some confusion as its meaning has changed ...

Mike Riggs and Mollie Kotzen farm crops on three acres in Durham, North Carolina. Their children like to help them. (Kate Medley/For The Washington Post) Guest column by Mike Riggs Everybody knows ...

Miller Homestead Fair in Eros Louisiana. Where people rejoiced in the Back-to-the-land movement. Read more to find out how ...

Tucked away in the mountains of Washington state, on a 5-acre lot, ducks and geese mill about. Goats are milked twice a day. A rooster crows. These animals belong to Elizabeth Kirk, her husband and ...

On March 20, the AEI Housing Center and U.S. Chamber of Commerce cohosted “Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again.” The event featured robust discussions among the Housing ...

A city food-growing strategy can include planting crops in sunny abandoned lots. People’s Grocery has transformed this Oakland, Calif., lot into a community garden in an effort to bring healthy, local ...

With a title like On Good Soil, you might expect EWTN’s new series on homesteading to feature a lot of talk about living off the land and learning to farm. What you probably wouldn’t expect is a deep ...

Emmie Sperandeo is preparing for winter as a woman homesteading alone Anna Claire Beasley Emmie Sperandeo is sharing her experience building a homestead on her own in Montana After deciding she needed ...

As the homesteading lifestyle grows in popularity, a local program called Little Roots, Big Harvest: Homesteading Together is giving communities in Missouri an opportunity to learn a variety of ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — It’s tomato season at Young Harvest Farm; so fresh, you can eat them right off the vine. “All of these are San Marzanos,” farm co-owner Chelsea Young points out. “I ...