Homesteading

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Broadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of simple, agrarian self-sufficiency.

[edit] Current practice

Currently the term homesteading^[1] applies to anyone who is a part of the back-to-the-land movement and who chooses to live a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle. While land is no longer freely available in most areas of the world, homesteading remains as a way of life. A new movement, called "urban homesteading," can be viewed as a simple living lifestyle, incorporating small-scale agriculture, sustainable and permaculture gardening, and home food production and storage into suburban or city living.

Homesteading may also refer to the practice of squatting — occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use.^[2]

[edit] See also

• Simple living
• Permaculture
• Back-to-the-land movement
• Foxfire books
• Seasteading

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "SelfSufficientish provides much information to the aspiring homsteader," no date. Accessed March. 3, 2008.
2. ^ Gregory Heller, "Self Help Housing: An Historical Overview of Squatting in New York City," no date. Accessed Feb. 1, 2007.