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  • verb Present participle of homestead.

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Examples

  • From these twin axioms - self ownership and 'homesteading' - stem the justification for the entire system of property rights titles in a free-market society.

    Attack the System Sean Jobst 2009

  • Or maybe it’s a well established term, and I just don’t travel in "homesteading" circles.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Slimbolala 2005

  • Or maybe it’s a well established term, and I just don’t travel in "homesteading" circles.

    Homesteading Slimbolala 2005

  • It started with one book that resonated with her, "Chicken Tractor" by Joel Saladin, in which she was exposed to the idea of homesteading.

    Judith Acosta: How Dreams Really Do Come True Judith Acosta 2011

  • I later found out this was called 'squatting,' and it had been done successfully by other very low-income families and later transformed through several forms of resistance into something called 'homesteading.'

    Steve Heilig: Poverty: The Most Common Crime? Steve Heilig 2012

  • It started with one book that resonated with her, "Chicken Tractor" by Joel Saladin, in which she was exposed to the idea of homesteading.

    Judith Acosta: How Dreams Really Do Come True Judith Acosta 2011

  • I later found out this was called 'squatting,' and it had been done successfully by other very low-income families and later transformed through several forms of resistance into something called 'homesteading.'

    Steve Heilig: Poverty: The Most Common Crime? Steve Heilig 2012

  • It started with one book that resonated with her, "Chicken Tractor" by Joel Saladin, in which she was exposed to the idea of homesteading.

    Judith Acosta: How Dreams Really Do Come True Judith Acosta 2011

  • It started with one book that resonated with her, "Chicken Tractor" by Joel Saladin, in which she was exposed to the idea of homesteading.

    Judith Acosta: How Dreams Really Do Come True Judith Acosta 2011

  • It started with one book that resonated with her, "Chicken Tractor" by Joel Saladin, in which she was exposed to the idea of homesteading.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Judith Acosta 2011

  • One of the first official uses of the term “homesteading” was in 1862, with the passing of the Homestead Act, signed by Abraham Lincoln to encourage western expansion and US agricultural development.

    Living off the land: the new sisterhood of Black female homesteaders Shanna B Tiayon for Narratively 2021

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