The Homestead Act of 1862 granted 160 acres to settlers and helped establish 400,000 family farms across the American frontier. Discover how ...

Fond du Lac County may add a new wheel tax, an annual vehicle fee, but it's very early in the process still. After early snow surge, winter weather nearly disappeared in Northeast Wisconsin So far, ...

Everyone loves the idea of homesteading—the wide-open space, the slower pace, the thought of growing your own food and raising animals. It sounds like the perfect life. But once the dust settles and ...

Hear how Colette Kenny of Half-Acre Homestead moved from the city and learned how to build a cabin house suited for eco-friendly self-sufficient homesteading. In this episode of Mother Earth News and ...

Petroski, now 40, was working as a renovation contractor in Pennsylvania, where he said that he was doing 'decent' at his business, with a tiny house in town and tenth of an acre of land. But still, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The second annual Homestead Festival featured two nights of music, educational seminars and more than 200 vendors and artisans, ...