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 ...

You don't have to grow up on a farm to become a chicken-raising, denim-donning, goat-hugging homesteader. Mix one go-getter family, acreage with good soil, and a farmhouse outfitted with a small wind ...

Wondering how to find homestead land? Read on! For many people, the dream of owning their own land is a powerful one. There ...

The Nourishing Homestead: One Back-to-the-Land Family’s Plan for Cultivating Soil, Skills, and Spirit by Ben Hewitt, with Penny Hewitt, Chelsea Green Publishing, 352 pages. $29.95. Full of advice, ...