homesteading

The idea of finding a piece of cheap land out in the boonies and setting up a used travel trailer to call home, became planted in my head after reading the book “Travel-Trailer Homesteading Under $5,000”, by Brian Kelling. This little book is a must have for anyone planning to do this. A lot of my ideas came after reading this book and I never could seem to shake the idea from my head. It seemed like the perfect plan for me.

Building on the success of the locavore movement’s 100 mile diet, a family operated homesteading project that manages to grow an incredible 6000 pounds of food on a tenth of an acre a year is upping the ante by launching a new challenge - the 100 foot diet. The aim is to give new life to the concept of Victory gardens that provided so much food and were so common in many countries during the war years.

Story written by a long-time activist in the intentional community movement. Laird Schuab has been the Executive Director of the Fellowship for Intentional Community since 1986.