Speaker: Nurturing ‘marginal land’ also incorporates conservation - Brown County Democrat

Speaker: Nurturing ‘marginal land’ also incorporates conservation - Brown County Democrat

Homesteading — a lifestyle of small-scale agriculture, food preservation, producing minimal waste, and self-sufficiency — prioritizes living independently and learning how to survive off the land with crops, animals and sometimes craft work. Interest in the topic has skyrocketed within the last five years, according to the Purdue Extension website. “Google Trends records that in Indiana search terms related to homesteading, like ‘chickens’, ‘sou…