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On the Web
- Homesteading Singles - A group where single homesteaders, or those who would like to be homesteaders, meet and exchange ideas.
- Battle of Homestead, 1892 - The Battle of Homestead Foundation was formed in 1996 to promote the Pump House of the old Homestead steel works as a labor history monument. Information on the strike, the foundation, scheduled events, and membership.
- Homestead.org - Contains an entire resource directory of information on homesteading and many other topics related to living a more natural, sustainable, and wholesome life.
- The American Experience: Andrew Carnegie - The Homestead Strike - Describes the violent 1892 strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania, which tarnished his reputation as a benevolent employer. From the companion site to the PBS program.
- Beulah Land Homestead - A northern Texas homestead attempting to live as self-sufficiently as possible. Describes raising and selling organic vegetables, fruits, eggs and natural chicken and rabbit meats.
- Practical History: The Homestead Strike, 1892 - Louis Adamic and Emma Goldman give short accounts of the strike, and anarchist Alexander Berkman tells how he shot Carnegie Steel official Henry Clay Frick.
- Pagan Homesteader - A developing forum discussing homesteading and rural resources, for Pagans or anyone who lives close to the Earth.
- The New World - This work of fiction tells the utopian tale of a homesteading adventure starting in 1964 and becoming a worldwide homesteading community.
- The Homestead Farmstay - 120-year-old wooden farm homestead on the banks of Rough River, Ikamatua. Superb flyfishing with five rivers nearby. Information and prices for accommodation, fishing, horse riding and helicopter access.
- Down To The Roots Magazine - An online resource that requires a paid subcription to "Down To The Roots Magazine," which is geared to the new or long-time homesteader. All articles are written by homesteaders.
Wikipedia Articles
- Homesteading the Noosphere - Homesteading the Noosphere (abbreviated HtN), an essay written by Eric S. Raymond about the social workings of open source software development, follows his influential piece "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
- Homesteading - Broadly defined, homesteading is a lifestyle of simple, agrarian self-sufficiency.
- Rain follows the plow - Rain follows the plow is the conventional name for a now-debunked theory of climatology that was popular throughout the American West and Australia during the late 19th century. The basic premise of the theory was that human habitation, in particular agriculture through homesteading, effected a permanent change in the climate of arid and semi-arid regions, making these regions more humid.
- Land run - Land run (sometimes land rush) usually refers to a historical event in which previously-restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first arrival basis. Some newly opened lands were sold first-come, sold by bid, or won by lottery, or by means other than a run.
- Seasteading - Seasteading is the concept of homesteading the sea, for example building an artificial island in international waters to establish a tax haven micronation. While many theoretical structures and concepts have been put forth, to date the vast majority of functional existing sea-steads are based on ocean going sailboats.