{"id":15753,"date":"2024-06-29T22:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=15753"},"modified":"2024-06-30T04:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T04:54:29","slug":"media-expansive-definition-of-homesteading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/06\/29\/media-expansive-definition-of-homesteading\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Expansive definition of homesteading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m so old, I remember when homesteading meant you took a plot of land, likely built a home on it, and began doing some agriculture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old definition<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the act or practice of acquiring, settling on, or occupying land under a homestead law (see HOMESTEAD LAW sense 2<\/a>); Homesteading<\/em> was a minor factor in farm formation; most farmers purchased their land.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

New Definition<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the act or practice of living frugally or self-sufficiently (as on a homestead<\/a>) especially by growing and preserving food<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Homesteading is growing: Homesteading appealing to more first-time farmers (axios.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What they’re saying:<\/strong> “You don’t have to be Laura Ingalls Wilder to be a homesteader. You can grow tomatoes on your balcony,” Jason Stange<\/a>, author of “Shelter From the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism,” tells us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But the growth is due to redefining homesteading to include those who have their own vegetable garden – or even just some potted tomatoes in the window sill. Or those who just bake their own bread<\/a>! By that definition, I have been homesteading much of my life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The definition also seems to have added “preppers” – which range from those doing reasonable storage of food and other needs to accommodate a disaster, to those prepping for Armaged\u00f3n and the end of life as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing tomatoes on your balcony might not be what you are thinking of when you hear the term “homesteading”! By the definition, all 3 of my adult “kids” are homesteaders. Two of them live on an acre or more of land and have huge vegetable gardens; the third lives in an suburban big city but also grows many vegetables in their yard, and has egg laying chickens too. I don’t think of any of them as “homesteaders” though!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no estimate on how many people are “homesteading”: A Look At the Homesteaders of America Community in 2022 (Data & Statistics) – Homesteaders of America<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This “growth of homesteading” seems to be primarily due to a redefinition of “homesteading” include vegetable gardens, canning fruits and vegetables, and baking your own bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you think of when you hear that someone is “homesteading”? The definition now includes anyone with a vegetable garden, doing their own canning or baking bread. Hmmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,352,34,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-misinformation","category-other","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}