Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homesteading celebrates the art of self-sufficiency through growing your own food and living close to the land. While traditional ...

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 ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. On Monday night, Denver City Council gave a big ol’ rubber stamp to urban homesteading when it approved a new ...

Heidi Kass’ backyard isn’t quite a food forest. But with native plants creeping out of the tree line behind her home, beans climbing up wooden supports, fruit trees and berry bushes (the gooseberries ...

Straw and burlap make a berm to hold soil for pumpkin plants in the front yard of Jenny Call and Ron Geier’s home. It allows them to make use of the slope for growing while the landscape fabric ...

Alameda resident Harvindar Singh (right), a local forager for Whole Foods, will co-host The Urban Homesteader. Credits: The Urban Homesteader If you have any doubt that urban homesteading is hot in ...

Christina Wong currently has four chickens: Raspberry, Lady Olgaberry, Butterberry and Fizzleberry. They live in a watermelon-pink coop in Wong’s Highland Park backyard, about 15 minutes outside of ...

Whether it's for political, ideological, economic or environmental reasons -- or because it's just plain fun -- a growing number of people are embracing elements of old-fashioned homesteading. Of ...

Some people wait for springtime to start gardening, but for Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen it's a year-round passion. These two redefine the meaning of "backyard gardeners." The married couple tends ...

A few years ago, my husband and I inherited two Meyer lemon bushes. They came from friends who had them in large pots flanking their front door, on a small porch that could no longer accommodate the ...