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 fourth annual NoCo Urban Homestead Tour on Saturday allowed visitors to learn more about urban farming and gardening by offering an afternoon of self-guided fun through community member’s homes.

L et’s say you’re interested in getting started with urban homesteading projects but you’re not sure what you’re legally ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...