Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homesteading celebrates the art of self-sufficiency through growing your own food and living close to the land. While traditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anaïs, left, Justin and Jordanne Dervaes carry on the family work at Urban Homestead that their father, Jules Dervaes Jr., started ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Urban homesteading is a movement that takes the ideals of "Little House on the Prairie" — growing your own food, baking from scratch, mending ...

In this era of farmers' markets and slow food, city dwellers are turning to the Internet to learn about old-timey self-reliance--how to butcher chickens, milk goats, or dye fabrics. But a new ...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ...There's been lot of love shown recently to the notion of cities being 'resilient,' 'good' … or just plain fabulous. Take, for example, The Rockefeller ...

In this edition of the “Bitcoin Homesteaders Interview Series,” I spoke with Erin, who built an urban farm in the backyard of her rented apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area. I originally met Erin ...

Fifteen years ago, and well before it was trendy, my husband and I decided to start urban homesteading. Like many who are now jumping into the trend today, we had no idea what we were doing. But ...

In 1984, a determined back-to-earther named Jules Dervaes Jr. brought his wife and children from a 10-acre farm in rural Florida to study theology in Pasadena but ultimately decided on a different ...

Rick Scarlet spent years moving barges on the Mississippi River and listening to co-workers complain about ever-increasing electric bills. During his off months, Scarlet chose to live in a teepee in ...