Check out Adapting in Place for a great post on Urban Homestead including a link to the ever growing Facebook page. Check out Doomers Site for some great thoughts on the issue, and if you really want to see how this all started check out Crunchy Chicken

I currently live on a farm, or to be a more fair statement, I live on land that is registered as farm land, this gives me certain rights in regards to owning livestock, growing crops, getting a different rate in regards to power costs etc.

Urban Homesteading means at its heart that the person owns or lives on land that has been rated as Urban and therefor they are limited on what uses they can do with this land, however at this point in time, you are still allowed to do many things on Urban registered land that fall into the Homesteading area.. like grow your own food, have fruit tree’s, depending on the town/counties rules, own bee’s, have backyard chickens, raise rabbits, compost etc..

When I lived in apartments, I often grew indoor herbs or plants, I was lucky enough to have a little outdoor space and often grew food in pots, when I moved to the artic, I composted with worm bins, Sprouted greens for home use, grew micro greens under lights, and grew herbs in the windows during the summer and under lights in winter.

I can’t imagine how this one single family figures they can own a “lifestyle movement” but that is what they are trying to do.. lets all join in helping make sure that this name stays a publicly used word, and does not become owned by a company for their own profit.