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 ...

In 1984, a determined back-to-earther named Jules Dervaes Jr. brought his wife and children from a 10-acre farm in rural Florida to study theology in Pasadena but ultimately decided on a different ...

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 ...

The Executive Director of Urban Native Collective knows you have to honor the land to get the most out of it. The term homesteading is closely tied to a way of life that seems diametrically opposed to ...

A historic home, built in 1860, sits on a double corner lot near downtown Marion. Complete with wide front porch and a turret on one corner, this house fits right into the shady, tree-lined ...

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 ...

Don’t Miss a Moment. Join 30,000 locals who stay current on San Antonio news, culture, and events. Get our free newsletters in your inbox three times a week. One advantage to growing your food is that ...

The term “farm-to-table” jumped the shark a while ago. Still, while most of us probably don’t want to know the name of the chicken we’re eating, à la Portlandia’s “Is it local?” sketch, chef and ...