Eleven years ago, our family left the Toronto suburbs for a beautiful off grid home in Canada's Northwest Territories. While it's just a 40-minute drive to the nearest city and modern conveniences, we ...

TRIPLETT, N.C. — Every morning before commuting to full-time jobs in town, Jess McClelland and Alex O’Neill tackle a long list of chores. Eggs in the chicken coop need collecting; the vegetables need ...

Modern convenience makes daily life easy, but it's also led many of us to lose touch with skills that once formed the backbone of every household. When you cultivate homesteading abilities—many of ...

Scott Huber uses a tractor to move animal manure into his compost area on Itty Bitty Farm. Credit: Courtesy of Scott Huber. By their very nature, homesteaders tend to be a pretty handy bunch. It makes ...

RuthAnn Zimmerman didn’t realize her sequestered way of life was trending online until after searching the hashtag “homesteading” on Instagram. Soon afterward, hashtag homesteading found her. Born a ...

What follows below is a partial list of homesteading skills that my husband and I share between us. I offer this list as a starting point to hopefully inspire young couples or new homesteaders to ...

Flowers, farming, fruit and foraging were some of the many subjects that attendees of the Country Living and Modern Homesteading Expo learned about Saturday at Stanwood High School. Put on by the ...

On their 23-and-a-half-acre farm in Tennessee, a homesteading mom is teaching her four kids the self-sufficiency lessons that her parents’ generation missed out on, in hopes of keeping alive the ...

Join us as we tour our PNW tiny homestead. We’ve settled into a 1.25-acre property with a 1970s A-frame cabin and various ...