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.

John Sweeney of Loveland aims to get rid of the grass in his yard for something better: homegrown food. “Colorado is a semi-arid state, and water is a very valuable commodity. Grass looks nice, but it ...

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 ...

On paper, Heidi Kass’s Rochester home and property look like any other city lot. Her single-family house sits on a plot of land of about 15,300 total square feet between two other residential plots on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...