What is an Urban Homesteader?
An urban homesteader is someone who enjoys living in the city, but doesn’t see why that should stop her from engaging directly with nature, growing her own food, and striving for self-sufficiency. We don’t wish to retreat to the countryside and live like the Unabomber in a plywood shack. We believe that people are best off living in cities and cooperating with other like-minded folks. Instead of hoarding ammo and MREs, we’re building the skills and forming the conditions and networks that sustain us, our friends and our neighbors, now and into the future. Urban homesteading is about preparedness, but we don’t like that term very much. It connotes stockpiling things that you hope will keep your ass alive. Survivalism in general is about the fear of death. Urban homesteading is about life – it is a way of life founded on pleasure, not fear. Our preparedness comes not so much through what we have, but what we know. We are recollecting the almost-lost knowledge of our great-grandparents, t
