The Homestead Act of 1862 granted 160 acres to settlers and helped establish 400,000 family farms across the American frontier. Discover how ...

Everyone loves the idea of homesteading—the wide-open space, the slower pace, the thought of growing your own food and raising animals. It sounds like the perfect life. But once the dust settles and ...

Hear how Colette Kenny of Half-Acre Homestead moved from the city and learned how to build a cabin house suited for eco-friendly self-sufficient homesteading. In this episode of Mother Earth News and ...

Petroski, now 40, was working as a renovation contractor in Pennsylvania, where he said that he was doing 'decent' at his business, with a tiny house in town and tenth of an acre of land. But still, ...