What is a homesteader?

A Homesteader is one who practices small-scale, sustainable agriculture and homemaking.

A homesteader can be a practicer of simple living , back to the land , or permaculture lifestyle.

Or it can be one who has grown in a culture of vegetable and domesticated farm animal producing, processing, and marketting for substinance and profit.

Or it can be both.

 What a homesteader is not is a corporate funded and government subsidized planter or feed lot owner who stays solvent only at the detertiment of the environment and the welfare and quality of the crops and animals under their care.

A Homesteader's operation does not have to be totally organic or antibiotic free, but he or she should consider all practices with an eye toward sustainability and quality of the final product.