Homesteading

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Aarón Rael Sr. leaves a legacy in Questa - Taos News
Although the name of his hometown was changed from San Antonio del Río Colorado to Questa a few years before he was born, Aarón Rael Sr., always loved his community. The son of Adonaisa Gómez Rael and José Enrique Rael, he was the oldest of 10

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

How we live now: A shift in the landscape - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Urban homesteading: Whether motivated by environmental politics, the DIY culture or the Slow Food movement, more people are turning backyards over to chickens and bees, harvesting rainwater and preserving homegrown crops. Organizations such as

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Irene Nelson - Williston Daily Herald
Irene was born on Oct. 25, 1904, the eldest of five children, to John and Emma (Lunden) Snippen. Her birthplace was the first location of Roseglen, as her homesteading parents were the first postmaster and postmistress. When they sold their store in

Photographer captured rise and fall of a Weld structure - The Tribune
For more history, read “Then Fosston Story” section of “Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston,” by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and “Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado,” edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis

Teamwork saves museum’s artifacts - Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — By the time the museum at the Homestead National Monument reopens, visitors should see no trace of a New Year’s Day water main break that splashed and soaked books, artifacts and furniture. Mark Engler, superintendent of the National

Aarón Rael Sr. leaves a legacy in Questa - Taos News
Although the name of his hometown was changed from San Antonio del Río Colorado to Questa a few years before he was born, Aarón Rael Sr., always loved his community. The son of Adonaisa Gómez Rael and José Enrique Rael, he was the oldest of 10

Experts believe regional foodsheds would reverse obesity epidemic - Natural News.com
(NaturalNews) Early Americana is remembered in part for its legacy of homesteading and family farming where families grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own animals for food, and traded their goods locally with neighbors. Today’s

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

How we live now: A shift in the landscape - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Urban homesteading: Whether motivated by environmental politics, the DIY culture or the Slow Food movement, more people are turning backyards over to chickens and bees, harvesting rainwater and preserving homegrown crops. Organizations such as

Homes Calendar - Herald Times
Homesteading 101: A Primer for Living off the Land: Sustainable living is more than just a passing trend, but many practitioners lack the practical information on how to successfully live off the land, especially when it comes to raising animals.

Irene Nelson - Williston Daily Herald
Irene was born on Oct. 25, 1904, the eldest of five children, to John and Emma (Lunden) Snippen. Her birthplace was the first location of Roseglen, as her homesteading parents were the first postmaster and postmistress. When they sold their store in

Photographer captured rise and fall of a Weld structure - The Tribune
For more history, read “Then Fosston Story” section of “Three Coins: Cornish, Osgood and Fosston,” by Dorothy Bolin, 1980, and “Homesteading the Dryland: A History of Northeast Weld County, Colorado,” edited by Bud Wells, 1986 by Curtis

Teamwork saves museum’s artifacts - Omaha World-Herald
LINCOLN — By the time the museum at the Homestead National Monument reopens, visitors should see no trace of a New Year’s Day water main break that splashed and soaked books, artifacts and furniture. Mark Engler, superintendent of the National

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west

Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood

Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were

Le Mars couple’s daughter claims fame as New Year’s baby - Le Mars Daily Sentinel
(Sentinel photo by Beverly Van Buskirk) Margaret Spies of Merrill has plenty of stories to tell about her life, from homesteading in the Colorado prairie to teaching country school. She turns 100 years old Jan. 14, 2010. [Click to enlarge] Madalyn

Colby’s female settlers: Groundbreaking pioneers - Fort Scott Tribune
COLBY — The promise of land attracted many adventurous spirits to Kansas in the 1800s. Melissa Alger was one of them. Alger, a single schoolteacher, journeyed to Thomas County to claim a homestead and to build a future. Alger’s adventure west

Cleanup continues at Homestead National Monument - Beatrice Daily Sun
About 800 artifacts may have been damaged when a water main broke in the Homestead National Monument’s visitors center. Curators were surveying the items over the weekend to determine the extent of the damage. They include ceramic, glass, metal, wood

Wrapping up the first decade of the 2000s - Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — Well, that certainly was an interesting decade! It was just 10 years ago that many were in mortal fear that computers would not be able to change dates for the new century, and everything as we knew it would cease to exist. People were

Organic Gardening and Homesteading Tips For a Self-Reliant Lifestyle
Organic gardening and homesteading tips and techniques to give you freedom and live a self-reliant life today.

Homestead.org: The Homesteader’s Free Library: Learn Homesteading
A place to learn homesteading and build a sane, earth-based lifestyle.

Homesteading
Homesteading - Living off the land. Creative ideas for living home decorating, garden ponds, cottage gardens, and more!

People’s Homesteading Group
People’s Homesteading Group 410 East North Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Phone: (410) 889-0071 | Fax: (410) 889-0652

Homesteading Tips
Homesteading, country living, rural life, Our homesteading tips. How to and how not to homestead, choosing a property, surviving in the country, utilities, water, electricity

Homesteading books, many at discount prices
Homesteading today is about creating a better lifestyle. Homestead Resources sells homesteading books on gardening, food preservation, livestock, finance, and other rural living

Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
What if. . . every man, woman and child in America could receive each year through a local bank $3,000 of “interest-free” credit to invest in our nation’s growth and new

Homesteading, a compilation
A compilation of writings, photos, wisdom of 25 years of Homesteading Programs at two farms in Southwest Michigan.

Homesteading Info ::Homesteading::
To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so

Organic Gardening and Homesteading Tips For a Self-Reliant Lifestyle
Organic gardening and homesteading tips and techniques to give you freedom and live a self-reliant life today.

Homestead.org: The Homesteader’s Free Library: Learn Homesteading
A place to learn homesteading and build a sane, earth-based lifestyle.

Homesteading
Homesteading - Living off the land. Creative ideas for living home decorating, garden ponds, cottage gardens, and more!

People’s Homesteading Group
People’s Homesteading Group 410 East North Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21202 Phone: (410) 889-0071 | Fax: (410) 889-0652

Homesteading Tips
Homesteading, country living, rural life, Our homesteading tips. How to and how not to homestead, choosing a property, surviving in the country, utilities, water, electricity

Homesteading books, many at discount prices
Homesteading today is about creating a better lifestyle. Homestead Resources sells homesteading books on gardening, food preservation, livestock, finance, and other rural living

Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
What if. . . every man, woman and child in America could receive each year through a local bank $3,000 of “interest-free” credit to invest in our nation’s growth and new

Homesteading, a compilation
A compilation of writings, photos, wisdom of 25 years of Homesteading Programs at two farms in Southwest Michigan.

Homesteading Info ::Homesteading::
To make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you, so

‘Highway for wildlife’ near Quail Mountain - Desert Sun
Sure, the area surrounding Quail Mountain is pretty. But if you don’t know much about the desert, you might wonder what all the fuss is about. These 955 acres, however, are actually something special. The parcels — never developed, never grazed

VT Edition: Modern Homesteading - Vermont Public Radio
Homesteading conjures images of a life of complete self-sufficiency: living off the grid and growing your own food. But there is no easy definition of the practice and these days there are many different approaches. VPR’s Steve Zind talks with

‘Highway for wildlife’ near Quail Mountain - Desert Sun
Sure, the area surrounding Quail Mountain is pretty. But if you don’t know much about the desert, you might wonder what all the fuss is about. These 955 acres, however, are actually something special. The parcels — never developed, never grazed

VT Edition: Modern Homesteading - Vermont Public Radio
Homesteading conjures images of a life of complete self-sufficiency: living off the grid and growing your own food. But there is no easy definition of the practice and these days there are many different approaches. VPR’s Steve Zind talks with

What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers? - GOOD

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What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers? GOOD In 2004, Eleanor Agnew wrote a memoir, Back From the Land, about her homesteading experience. After being lured by the idealism of living in nature and … Finding a Balance Between Farmers and FarmvilleTreehugger all 2 news articles »

Patrick Grady ‘70 Authors Homesteading Along the Creek - DePauw University

DePauw University

Patrick Grady '70 Authors Homesteading Along the Creek DePauw University December 19, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Patrick Grady, a 1970 graduate of DePauw University, has published Homesteading Along the Creek: Pioneer Life in Cave …

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas - Cincinnati Business Courier (blog)

Cincinnati Business Courier (blog)

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas Cincinnati Business Courier (blog) … Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; SmartMoney Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corp.; … PNC gives out $206000 to groupsCincinnati.com all 19 news articles »

What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers? - GOOD

Treehugger

What Does Farmville Mean for Farmers? GOOD In 2004, Eleanor Agnew wrote a memoir, Back From the Land, about her homesteading experience. After being lured by the idealism of living in nature and … Finding a Balance Between Farmers and FarmvilleTreehugger all 2 news articles »

Patrick Grady ‘70 Authors Homesteading Along the Creek - DePauw University

DePauw University

Patrick Grady '70 Authors Homesteading Along the Creek DePauw University December 19, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. — Patrick Grady, a 1970 graduate of DePauw University, has published Homesteading Along the Creek: Pioneer Life in Cave …

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas - Cincinnati Business Courier (blog)

Cincinnati Business Courier (blog)

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas Cincinnati Business Courier (blog) … Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; SmartMoney Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corp.; … PNC gives out $206000 to groupsCincinnati.com all 19 news articles »

30 day Archives - flatheadnewsgroup.com
Oshanee Cullooyah Kenmille was an artist, a tribal elder, and teacher who taught tanning at Salish Kootenai college for 28 years. She died of natural causes Feb. 11 at the age of 93, a press release from the Confederate Salish and Kootenai Tribe said

2009’s Crop Of Great Gardening Books - WBUR
My hands down favorite of 2009 is Novella Carpenter’s Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer . It’s the cheekiest manifesto on homesteading you’re ever likely to read. Carpenter farms in Oakland, Calif. — “on a dead-end street in the ghetto

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas - Business Courier
Working In Neighborhoods; Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Housing Opportunities Made Equal; Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; SmartMoney Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corp.;

PNC gives out $206,000 to groups - Cincinnati.com
Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Housing Opportunities Made Equal; Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; Smart Money Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corporation (HURC); Cincinnati

30 day Archives - flatheadnewsgroup.com
Oshanee Cullooyah Kenmille was an artist, a tribal elder, and teacher who taught tanning at Salish Kootenai college for 28 years. She died of natural causes Feb. 11 at the age of 93, a press release from the Confederate Salish and Kootenai Tribe said

2009’s Crop Of Great Gardening Books - WBUR
My hands down favorite of 2009 is Novella Carpenter’s Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer . It’s the cheekiest manifesto on homesteading you’re ever likely to read. Carpenter farms in Oakland, Calif. — “on a dead-end street in the ghetto

PNC surprise: Grants for Christmas - Business Courier
Working In Neighborhoods; Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Housing Opportunities Made Equal; Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; SmartMoney Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corp.;

PNC gives out $206,000 to groups - Cincinnati.com
Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Housing Opportunities Made Equal; Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati; Smart Money Community Services; United Way of Greater Cincinnati; Homesteading and Urban Redevelopment Corporation (HURC); Cincinnati

Holiday Books - New York Times

Holiday Books New York Times Summer's homesteading how-to's and grilling guides have given way to fall's fearlessly bountiful lineup. It's the time of year when big …

New Landlord Is Chosen for Troubled Bronx Buildings - New York Times

New York Times

New Landlord Is Chosen for Troubled Bronx Buildings New York Times There are numerous dilapidated apartment buildings around the city, but the organizing work of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, which assisted … Omni New York LLC emerges to buy mortgage for Crotona Park buildingsNew York Daily News all 8 news articles »

Nurseryman passionate about conservation - La Grande Observer

Nurseryman passionate about conservation La Grande Observer CHRIS BAXTER / The Observer ENTERPRISE — Terry and Irene Bates have homesteaded in Enterprise. They are not homesteading in the classic sense of receiving …

Holiday Books - New York Times

Holiday Books New York Times Summer's homesteading how-to's and grilling guides have given way to fall's fearlessly bountiful lineup. It's the time of year when big …

New Landlord Is Chosen for Troubled Bronx Buildings - New York Times

New York Times

New Landlord Is Chosen for Troubled Bronx Buildings New York Times There are numerous dilapidated apartment buildings around the city, but the organizing work of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, which assisted … Omni New York LLC emerges to buy mortgage for Crotona Park buildingsNew York Daily News all 8 news articles »

Nurseryman passionate about conservation - La Grande Observer

Nurseryman passionate about conservation La Grande Observer CHRIS BAXTER / The Observer ENTERPRISE — Terry and Irene Bates have homesteaded in Enterprise. They are not homesteading in the classic sense of receiving …

Northern People: Couple lives off-the-grid - Traverse City Record-Eagle
MARQUETTE — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other methods

Gros Ventre habitat plan would help swans - jhnewsandguide
A project to improve and restore wetlands far up the Gros Ventre River drainage could make the Jackson Hole trumpeter swan population more robust, a wetlands advocate said Tuesday. A plan by Michael Halpin to increase riparian vegetation and wetlands

Library receives memorials, donations - Bellefontaine Examiner
Homesteading edited by Abigail R. Gehring for Elizabeth Castle Hoylman from Benjamin Logan Schools bus drivers. Amazing Grace by Cris Peterson from the Logan Soil & Water Conservation District and Tamplin Trust. Light Dragoons and Man of War  by

Jim Bohlen - The Province
Jim Bohlen was born in the Bronx, N.Y., July 4, 1926. After the 1971 campaign, Bohlen left Greenpeace and moved to Denman Island, where he founded Greenpeace Farm, dedicated to organic agriculture and homesteading. In 1975, he wrote The New Pioneer

Letter from the Other Alaska - Alaska Dispatch
JoomlaEZ.com’s Slideshow Joomla Module - Brings modern web 2.0 slideshow layouts to Joomla based site. JoomlaEZ.com’s Joomla Theme Base - Complete base helps creating professional Joomla template in minutes. BOOK EXCERPT: On the morning of John

LETTER: Nice Nov. 11 coverage - Daily Herald Tribune
I believe that the original women and men who came to the Peace Country, whether they were homesteading in the area or living in Grande Prairie, should be acknowledged more with their stories, and should have been in the Homecoming Parade during the

Urban Agriculture Examiner | - Examiner
In the last few years, she has concentrated on learning as much as possible about urban agriculture, urban homesteading, organic gardening, conservation, and self-sufficiency. Her goal now is to educate and enlighten those who seek a simpler

Northern People: Couple lives off-the-grid - Traverse City Record-Eagle
MARQUETTE — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other methods

Gros Ventre habitat plan would help swans - jhnewsandguide
A project to improve and restore wetlands far up the Gros Ventre River drainage could make the Jackson Hole trumpeter swan population more robust, a wetlands advocate said Tuesday. A plan by Michael Halpin to increase riparian vegetation and wetlands

Library receives memorials, donations - Bellefontaine Examiner
Homesteading edited by Abigail R. Gehring for Elizabeth Castle Hoylman from Benjamin Logan Schools bus drivers. Amazing Grace by Cris Peterson from the Logan Soil & Water Conservation District and Tamplin Trust. Light Dragoons and Man of War  by

Jim Bohlen - The Province
Jim Bohlen was born in the Bronx, N.Y., July 4, 1926. After the 1971 campaign, Bohlen left Greenpeace and moved to Denman Island, where he founded Greenpeace Farm, dedicated to organic agriculture and homesteading. In 1975, he wrote The New Pioneer

Letter from the Other Alaska - Alaska Dispatch
JoomlaEZ.com’s Slideshow Joomla Module - Brings modern web 2.0 slideshow layouts to Joomla based site. JoomlaEZ.com’s Joomla Theme Base - Complete base helps creating professional Joomla template in minutes. BOOK EXCERPT: On the morning of John

LETTER: Nice Nov. 11 coverage - Daily Herald Tribune
I believe that the original women and men who came to the Peace Country, whether they were homesteading in the area or living in Grande Prairie, should be acknowledged more with their stories, and should have been in the Homecoming Parade during the

Urban Agriculture Examiner | - Examiner
In the last few years, she has concentrated on learning as much as possible about urban agriculture, urban homesteading, organic gardening, conservation, and self-sufficiency. Her goal now is to educate and enlighten those who seek a simpler

Library receives memorials, donations - Bellefontaine Examiner
and Cindy Kelley, The Scoop by Fern Michaels, 92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber (large print edition Homesteading edited by Abigail R. Gehring for Elizabeth Castle Hoylman from Benjamin Logan Schools bus drivers. Amazing Grace by Cris

One-of-a-Kind Holiday Gifts - East Bay Express
Brightly colored fruits and veggies inside glass Mason jars make particularly festive-looking gifts, and your friends and family will no doubt be impressed by your newfound homesteading skills. And if you’ve got a brown thumb or don’t have time or

Think small at Fort Trumbull - TheDay
I got some interesting reactions when I floated the idea recently that the city might consider giving Fort Trumbull back, offering the still-undeveloped land up to homesteaders who would agree to build houses and live there, creating a neighborhood

Northern People: Couple lives off-the-grid - Traverse City Record-Eagle
MARQUETTE — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other methods

Couple teaches others how to live off the grid - Morning Sun
MARQUETTE (AP) — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other

LETTER: Nice Nov. 11 coverage - Daily Herald Tribune
I believe that the original women and men who came to the Peace Country, whether they were homesteading in the area or living in Grande Prairie, should be acknowledged more with their stories, and should have been in the Homecoming Parade during the

Jim Bohlen - The Province
Jim Bohlen was born in the Bronx, N.Y., July 4, 1926. After the 1971 campaign, Bohlen left Greenpeace and moved to Denman Island, where he founded Greenpeace Farm, dedicated to organic agriculture and homesteading. In 1975, he wrote The New Pioneer

Urban Agriculture Examiner | - Examiner
In the last few years, she has concentrated on learning as much as possible about urban agriculture, urban homesteading, organic gardening, conservation, and self-sufficiency. Her goal now is to educate and enlighten those who seek a simpler

Library receives memorials, donations - Bellefontaine Examiner
and Cindy Kelley, The Scoop by Fern Michaels, 92 Pacific Boulevard by Debbie Macomber (large print edition Homesteading edited by Abigail R. Gehring for Elizabeth Castle Hoylman from Benjamin Logan Schools bus drivers. Amazing Grace by Cris

One-of-a-Kind Holiday Gifts - East Bay Express
Brightly colored fruits and veggies inside glass Mason jars make particularly festive-looking gifts, and your friends and family will no doubt be impressed by your newfound homesteading skills. And if you’ve got a brown thumb or don’t have time or

Think small at Fort Trumbull - TheDay
I got some interesting reactions when I floated the idea recently that the city might consider giving Fort Trumbull back, offering the still-undeveloped land up to homesteaders who would agree to build houses and live there, creating a neighborhood

Northern People: Couple lives off-the-grid - Traverse City Record-Eagle
MARQUETTE — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other methods

Couple teaches others how to live off the grid - Morning Sun
MARQUETTE (AP) — Homesteading. The term calls to mind American pioneers moving west, living off the land, self-sufficient. They’re not moving west in covered wagons, but modern-day homesteaders, using alternative energy, home gardens and other

LETTER: Nice Nov. 11 coverage - Daily Herald Tribune
I believe that the original women and men who came to the Peace Country, whether they were homesteading in the area or living in Grande Prairie, should be acknowledged more with their stories, and should have been in the Homecoming Parade during the

Jim Bohlen - The Province
Jim Bohlen was born in the Bronx, N.Y., July 4, 1926. After the 1971 campaign, Bohlen left Greenpeace and moved to Denman Island, where he founded Greenpeace Farm, dedicated to organic agriculture and homesteading. In 1975, he wrote The New Pioneer

Urban Agriculture Examiner | - Examiner
In the last few years, she has concentrated on learning as much as possible about urban agriculture, urban homesteading, organic gardening, conservation, and self-sufficiency. Her goal now is to educate and enlighten those who seek a simpler