If you google 'Homesteading' you'll see that the term no longer is resrticted in it's meaning to the historical giveaway of land. I subscribe to several 'Homesteading' magazineas and publications and consider myself an 'Urban Homesteader.' I am trying to coinvince my husband to let me have some laying hens but that's not going as well as I had hoped.

Urban Homesteaders try to create a lifestyle where they are as self-sufficent as possible in terms of power, produce, fruit, dairy, clothing and other such things.Many Urban Homesteaders commute via Bicyle or use Hybrid cars. We are interested in something called 'Hygridding' which is being hooked up to the Power grid but utlizing as much solar and alternative power as possible, sometimes selling power back to the utilty. Laws vary about that from place to place.

I am just getting started Homesteading in an Urban Environment. I am growing more and more of my own vegetables but California has odd laws about fruit tress which I've yet to master. We can't import them and what's available locally leaves much to be desired. Urban Homesteading takes time. Not every community is open to City Dwellers having a Milk Goar or laying hens even if the local codes permit it.

I'm working on it. I hope this thread stays active. I have always been one to do my own sewing and mending and it seems to me the Homesteading lifestyle is just an extension of traditional womens arts combined with other sensible practices