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  2. Subsistence Homesteads Division - Wikipedia

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    The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. [2] Unlike subsistence farming, subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. [3]

  3. Homesteading - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Holzwarth Historic District - Wikipedia

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    John Holzwarth Sr. was a saloonkeeper in Denver. In 1916 Colorado enacted prohibition, leading Holzwarth to try homesteading at Grand River. The opening of the Fall River Road over the mountains to Estes Park in 1920 created an opportunity for Holzwarth to take in guests. The operation was taken over by John Holzwarth Jr., who ran it until 1973 ...

  5. Urban homesteading - Wikipedia

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    Urban American cities, such as New York City, have used policies of urban homesteading to encourage citizens to occupy and rebuild vacant properties. [1] [2] Policies by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development allowed for federally owned properties to be sold to homesteaders for nominal sums as low as $1, financed otherwise by the state, and inspected after a one-year period. [3]

  6. Smallholding - Wikipedia

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    A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]

  7. Back-to-the-land movement - Wikipedia

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    A back-to-the-land movement is any of various agrarian movements across different historical periods. The common thread is a call for people to take up smallholding and to grow food from the land with an emphasis on a greater degree of self-sufficiency, autonomy, and local community than found in a prevailing industrial or postindustrial way of life.

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    Editor’s choice: The best 5 recipes to try from Quick & Cozy. Along with my beautiful at-home testers, my husband and my 14-month-old, we tested a handful of recipes from “Half-Baked Harvest ...

  9. Nguni homestead - Wikipedia

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    A homestead (Xhosa: umzi) in southern Africa is a cluster of several houses, typically occupied by a single extended family and often with an attached kraal. Such settlements are characteristic of Nguni-speaking peoples. A house within a homestead is known as an indlu, plural tindlu or izindlu (Xhosa and Zulu).