K. Ruby Blume's Oakland backyard is filled with citrus trees and raspberry bushes, towering tomato plants and trellised hop vines. In a back corner, she raises rabbits for meat, and there are a few ...

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 ...

Seeds don’t have to come from a store; you just need to follow some rules for harvesting from your own garden, whether vegetable or flower. That said, it can get a little tricky. Some plant species’ ...

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“Goats like to climb,” Erika Slusher says as her 4-year-old pygmy goat, Daisy, hops up and down on a section of tree trunk, one of several stumps set up as a playground of sorts in the pen. Meanwhile, ...

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 ...

The South Waco Library, 2737 S. 18th St., is offering Urban Homesteading 101 classes on the second Saturday of each month. The class from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. March 9 will cover beekeeping. George ...

Art Center Waco, 701 S. Eighth St., will offer kids camps from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday and Friday. Cost is $50 for ages 5-9 and $75 for ages 10-14. Kids ages 5-9 will make giant art and small art with ...

There were some ruffled feathers," admits James Bertini, the attorney/urban farm advocate who's been working for years to get the city to allow chickens in Denver yards. "But there aren't now." Not in ...

BACK TO THE LAND: While there has been a major urban homesteading push in recent years -- we'd argue it never went away in certain, lush, tomato-filled corners -- finding people to share information ...