Tips for Starting Your Urban Homestead

Reader Tips • Jul 21, 2025

Many Homesteading Paths

Marissa Ames • Apr 23, 2024

Homesteaders' Advice on How to Start Out

John Stuart, Carol Mack, Megan Phelps • Dec 29, 2023

Learn to Homestead with SKIP

Mike Haasl • May 23, 2023

How to Start Homesteading: Planning the Plan

James A. "Hoss" Boyd, Kerena Reese • Mar 13, 2023

Wall Tents and Spike Tents Provide Simple, Temporary Shelter

Kerry W. Mann, Jr., Homesteadhow • Mar 15, 2021

Memory-Building on a Family Farm

Jonny Malks • Oct 4, 2020

Starting Corn in the Living Room and Other Mistakes We Made Goin’ Country

Lenora Thompson • Sep 23, 2020

Single Mom Begins Off-Grid Cabin Living with Hard Work and Joy

Jo Devries • Apr 6, 2020

Five Winters, Part 2

Jocelyn Harvey With Introduction Kerridwen Harvey • Oct 16, 2019

Five Winters: Two Conscientious Objectors Find Struggle and Salvation in Their 1970s Move Back to the Land

Jocelyn Harvey With Introduction Kerridwen Harvey • Oct 2, 2019

First Step to Building a Working Farm: Choosing Good Farmland

Ann B., Poison Ivy Soap Company • Sep 9, 2018

Avoiding the Pitfalls Of Failing as a New Homesteader

Starry Hilder • Mar 31, 2017

How to Raise Rabbits for a Sustainable Meat Source

Lydia Noyes • Jul 7, 2016

Jennifer Poindexter Biography

Jennifer Poindexter, Morning Chores • Apr 18, 2016

How We Became Caretakers of a Historic Appalachian Homestead

Lydia Noyes • Nov 5, 2015

Unplugging to Reconnect: A Journey Toward Full-Time Homesteading - Finances, Part 2

John Atwell • Jan 8, 2015

Creating a Homestead: Where to Start

Ed Essex • Jan 31, 2014

So You Got Your Dream Homestead, Now What?

Angie Pomponio • Nov 22, 2013

Homesteading 101: Getting Started

Larissa Reznek • Aug 1, 2013