He was a young, successful investor and family man who had it all. Although he owned property investments, was able to pay $350,000 in cash for a huge house, and lived an affluent lifestyle, Joe Wilder, a religious man, saw the “shenanigans” in his workplace and became disenchanted with the whole deal. He conceded he…

A former school principal who grew frustrated with the school system quit her job and instead chose to homeschool her three kids on a 10-acre (4.05-hectare) homestead. Merging her children’s learning with their land and home, she has created an immersive “real world” educational experience based on her kids’ unique needs. Mandy Davis, 37, lives…

A family of four hailing from the United States was keen to live out their homesteading dream in Europe and found the perfect place after sifting through thousands of options: a 200-year-old stone house in the Italian Alps with boundless potential. Six months into the restoration, the family wants the world to know that changing…

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught the American people anything, it’s that the institutions and systems we have held up and relied upon for decades are deeply flawed. This fact became painfully evident when grocery store shelves emptied, when farmers had to kill excess livestock due to supply chain interruptions, when conveniences that had been taken…

An anorexia survivor and mom of seven has found peace and rhythm since her family adopted homesteading as a lifestyle. Through the ups and downs of building a home, weathering the seasons, learning to appreciate food from farm to table, and homeschooling, she has found a simple life that has worked, and now she shares…

On their 23-and-a-half-acre farm in Tennessee, a homesteading mom is teaching her four kids the self-sufficiency lessons that her parents’ generation missed out on, in hopes of keeping alive the skills that served her ancestors. High school sweethearts Cortney, 32, and her husband, Samuel Black, were raised in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. Currently,…

RuthAnn Zimmerman didn’t realize her sequestered way of life was trending online until after searching the hashtag “homesteading” on Instagram. Soon afterward, hashtag homesteading found her. Born a Mennonite Pennsylvanian—riding horse and buggies, the whole deal—she and her husband, Elvin, inherited a formidable survivalist skillset atypical of most Americans today, worthy of any apocalypse-bound, patriot prepper….

It was mainly for the wellbeing of their 10 children that Carolyn and Josh Thomas struck out to start their own family homestead 1,000 miles from their home. Their life in Southern California had been all about chasing a check, climbing the ladder, and getting ahead. They were used to following the crowd. It was…

The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers the reason the feud started in the first place. One stormy night in 1810, family patriarch John McKay and his rival James Canfield kill each other. After the tragic death of her husband, John’s wife decides her son Willie will not…

A homesteading family in Virginia became so tickled with a video online featuring pumpkin-carving chickens they decided to try it with their own brood. The resulting jack-o-lantern was amazing. According to the family, you don’t have to spend a ton of money to make memories. Stan, a police officer and wrestling coach, runs his family’s…