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For other uses, see Homestead.Broadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of simple, agrarian self-sufficiency.
Current practice
Currently the term 'homesteading' applies to anyone who is a limb 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.
Certain progressive activists are attempting to redefine the term based on a few limited successes in New York courts. According to them, 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.
See also
External links
- Homestead.org - The Homesteader's Free Library.
- The Modern Homestead - Learning together to be more sustainable.
- Prepared Society - Comprehensive resource on simple living.
Notes
- "SelfSufficientish provides much information to the aspiring homsteader," no date. Accessed March. 3, 2008.
- Gregory Heller, "Self Help Housing: An Historical Overview of Squatting in New York City," no date. Accessed Feb. 1, 2007.