Ever wonder why more people don’t choose this path? Homesteading offers deep rewards—connection to land, food, meaning, resilience. And yet... most people run the other way. Why? Because modern culture doesn’t prioritize resilience. It prioritizes comfort, convenience, and efficiency—at all costs. It’s easier to tap a screen and get groceries in 20 minutes than to grow a tomato. Easier to blast the A/C than to insulate with intention. Easier to numb out than to dig in—literally and figuratively. But here’s the thing no one talks about: Comfort is fragile. Efficiency without soul is empty. Homesteading isn’t easy. It asks a lot of you. But it gives you something that modern life rarely does: meaning. Not abstract meaning. Real, gritty, hands-in-the-soil, feeding-your-family, earning-your-heat kind of meaning. The kind that can't be bought on Amazon. Most people avoid homesteading because they’ve been trained to outsource their needs—food, energy, even their sense of purpose. But those of us walking this path… we know. There’s freedom in the work. There’s joy in the slowness. And there’s strength in choosing resilience over convenience. Let’s talk: What was the biggest mindset shift for you when stepping into this life? What keeps you going when the path gets hard? 👇 Share your story. Let’s inspire the next wave.

Cosmic Coincidence: "The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, was a pivotal piece of legislation that provided 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to improve and cultivate it. The Act officially ended in 1976." This was a post published at the bottom of the page on Bookshop.org's Homesteading book selection page. I recently mentioned legal homesteading here in a reply recently to another Perma Resilience member. ~~~ (Is there really such a thing as 'coincidence' in this Universe???)

Hi I'm from Kazakhstan, regenerative agriculture enthusiast. Searching information about homesteading in the USA, how to find budget land in states with adequate rules(restrictions) for building and agriculture activity, mild climate with winters not below -5°C, amount of precipitation and soil moisture enough to decay organic matter on soil surface.

We finally got electricity! Yaya! So... we immediately jumped in and started building the greenhouse three feet deep buried on 3/4ths the sides of it. We stair stepped the one side of the greenhouse as it slopes down into the greenhouse on the NW side of it. We are hanging shade clothes up on that side as well as the Florida sun will beam heavily in from that direction in the summer time.

Hello, 👋🏾 thanks for welcoming into the group. AI am a healer and urban farmer in Billings Montana. I have a small Regenerative Farm on a city plot with over 200 edible and medicinal varieties. In spring, the plan is to convert the pool in to an underground greenhouse. We have chickens and rabbits as livestock. Trying to create a blueprint others can follow to have edible landscaping and food/medicinal security. Look forward to engaging with others.