Homesteading celebrates the art of self-sufficiency through growing your own food and living close to the land. While traditional homesteaders often manage larger rural properties, urban homesteading ...

Anaïs, left, Justin and Jordanne Dervaes carry on the family work at Urban Homestead that their father, Jules Dervaes Jr., started in 1985. In 1984, a determined back-to-earther named Jules Dervaes Jr ...

Taite and Ben Kyle operate their homestead with the space their suburban home provides. The pair also utilize recycled goods to further cut back on their environmental impact. Climate change shapes ...

As noted in Westword’s summer-long “Urbavore’s Dilemma” series, Denver’s in the midst of an urban-gardening renaissance, with city dwellers tending chickens and turning their yards into Green Acres.

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 ...

SFoodie's Sean Timberlake weighs in today at Punk Domestics on the fight over usage of “urban homesteading” and its variations. Timberlake explains: In October of ...

Attorney/urban-homesteading activist James Bertini didn’t even get the cease-and-desist letter the Dervaes Institute sent to other urban-homesteading groups, bloggers and publishers. Instead, he found ...

Heidi Kass said sometimes she feels like she should have been born 150 years ago. She grows dozens of varieties of vegetables and fruit, preserves them, and saves seeds for next year’s growing season.

"I think chickens is a chick thing," joked Eric Olson. He's right - in a way. Most chicken enthusiasts start with a few chicks, but their home-operations tend to blossom as they reap the rewards of ...

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 ...

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 ...