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 ...

On paper, Heidi Kass’s Rochester home and property look like any other city lot. Her single-family house sits on a plot of land of about 15,300 total square feet between two other residential plots on ...

Homesteading doesn’t have to mean 10 acres and a tractor. In today’s world, where buying land can feel out of reach and digital life is louder than ever, turning your city space into a tiny homestead ...

In recent years, urban neighborhoods have witnessed a growing trend toward homesteading, a practice traditionally associated with rural settings. While true homesteading may conjure images of vast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millennials and Generation Z have made a noticeable shift back to basics in recent years. Learn how and why these younger groups increasingly turn towards homesteading and how they differ from ...