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Could you provide a description of what you mean by 'homesteading'? Are we talking buy a small farm and try to live off grid?
by JonChesterfield 5y ago
Could you provide a description of what you mean by 'homesteading'? Are we talking buy a small farm and try to live off grid?
- jb1991 5y agoFirst time I've heard this term as well.
- _gmnw 5y agoIt's a fairly popular trend now, doing exactly what OP said. It usually involves buying a few acres and trying to be self-sufficient. Of course there's a subreddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/
- ctdonath 5y agoIt has been popular for a long time. Internet has made concept exposure & social networking easier. My parents did it as hobby and crisis management; two generations further back my relatives were living it in earnest as norm for immigrants and descendants.
- larrydag 5y agoThe traditional definition of homestead is an isolated farmhouse or ranch house. Typically refers to the residence on remote land for farming or ranching purposes. I'm not sure if it is the same reference in this context.
- Veen 5y agoIf you're not American, a homestead is more or less the same thing as a smallholding.
- ctdonath 5y agoOptimally, it's obtaining a sufficient plot of bare land and building a roughly self-sufficient complex thereon (home, barn, workshop, garden, orchard, fuel/power, pond, robust kitchen, storage, and/or etc). One may buy a property already with any degree thereof, focus on operational near-self-sufficiency. This is particularly ingrained in American culture as we're a very few generations away from such lifestyle being normal during expansion across an undeveloped continent.