Homesteading can happen anywhere...

... but many that would like to live self/community-sufficiently can't of course, because of the social system that we live in that controls/destroys the land and what is left requires a lot of $ for ownership and taxes. Saying "we need to get back to the Garden" while not confronting this elephant in the room will not be effective; logical reasoning leads to the necessity of personal sovereignty and land reform (i.e. land should be a human right), which as far as political/social philosophy, falls under Green Anarchism. The only groups I know of active on this front-line of real positive change our The Land is Ours of England and the MST of Brazil, perhaps there are others, I hope so. Americans for the most part don't even get that this is the root/problem solution, caught up in technocratic illusions, but hopefully that will change too.
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Peace
Colin