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- Instance of
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- has goal
- self-sufficiency
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- Homesteading
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- The Washington Post
- partially coincident with
- survival skill
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- As historical governmental policy
- As a social movement
- As an economic choice
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thumb|A homesteader turning up beans in Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. Homesteading has been pursued in various ways around the world and throughout different historical eras. It is typically distinguished from rural village or commune living by the isolation of the homestead (socially, physically, or both). Use of the term in the United States dates back to the Homestead Act (1862) and before. In sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in nations formerly controlled by the British Empire, a homestead is the household compound for a single extended family. In the UK the terms smallholder and croft are rough synonyms of homesteader.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “homesteading” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.