A city food-growing strategy can include planting crops in sunny abandoned lots. People’s Grocery has transformed this Oakland, Calif., lot into a community garden in an effort to bring healthy, local ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Urban homesteading is a movement that takes the ideals of "Little House on the Prairie" — growing your own food, baking from scratch, mending ...

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 ...