Whether you work in construction, landscaping, or some other field altogether, you can learn more about the increasingly larger movement towards homesteading through the great blogs being published about it on the web. These bloggers have moved out to the country or are using their smaller urban spaces to produce the vast majority of their own food and other household essentials. Find inspiration, advice and just plain interesting articles on this great collection of blogs all about homesteading in the modern world.

General

These blogs cover the basics of homesteading, showcasing families who are making it work in their own ways.

1. Carpe Diem Acreage: This family is trying to live more simply through homesteading.
2. The Happy Homesteader: Check out this Mother Earth News blog to get all the basic information you need on successful homesteading.
3. Living the Good Life: Raising sheep, crops and other farm animals, this rural family is all about keeping life simple.
4. Tiny Farm Blog: This blog proves that you don't have to have a huge farm to make homesteading work.
5. Walnut Spinney: Here, you'll find a family that does it all on their own, from home schooling to raising their own food.
6. Throwback at Trapper Creek: This blog chronicles some of the differences between homesteading back in the day and how it works today.
7. Seldom Seen Acres: Check out this blog for posts from a homesteading mom just getting started raising animals, growing food and even making her own soap.
8. The Walden Effect: Ever felt inspired enough by Walden to take it to heart? These bloggers did and post all kinds of articles about the simple, quiet country life.
9. New Life on a Homestead: Read this blog to watch this family learn more about homesteading as they go.
10. The Self-Sufficient Homestead: Learn how to make your homesteading project a successful one with help from these podcasting and blogging homesteaders.
11. Cage Free Family: This family gave up their city lives to live simply and sustainably in the country. Learn more about their journey here.
12. Homemaking Homesteader: On this blog, you'll find a mom who not only helps maintain the homestead but cares for her kids, cooks, bakes and makes her house a home.
13. Life, Homesteading and Everything: Try out this blog to find lovely garden photos and information about homesteading.
14. Not So Virtual Homestead: Read along as these bloggers maintain their 6-acre homestead in New Jersey.
15. Timber Butte Homestead: These homesteaders live on a beautiful farm and are trying to make it more sustainable.
16. No Ordinary Homestead: Through this site, you can read posts about homesteading and anything else that comes to this blogger's mind.

Newbies

Check out these blogs for insights into what it takes to get started with homesteading.

17. A Homesteading Neophyte: These bloggers have only been homesteading for a couple of years and share their experiences raising sheep, making soap and living the rural life.
18. City Boy Starts Farmin': If you're a city person who wants to move out into the country, check out this great homesteading blog for inspiration.
19. Freshman Farmer: Here you'll find a group of bloggers who are all new to farming, so learn along with them as they plow the land.
20. Mud on the Tracks: This newly-rural couple share their ups and downs on their Massachusetts farm.
21. Living a Simple Life: Check out this blog for inspiration for the younger generation on how to live a more simple, sustainable life.
22. The Birth of a Homestead: Follow along as this family sets up their homestead in Vermont.
23. My Freezer is Full: On this blog, you'll be able to read posts from an Iowa farm girl who moved back to the farm to live.

Farms

These homesteading blogs focus on the family farm.

24. Rowangarth Farm: This Ontario farm is home to modern day homesteaders trying to live more sustainably.
25. Animal Escapades: These bloggers and homesteaders primarily raise sheep on their farm, but have many other animals as well.
26. Achorn Farm: Based in Maine, this farm is where a former nurse put her career on hold to concentrate on working with the land and raising her family.
27. Cold Antler Farm: Blogger Jenna raises sheep, chickens, rabbits, geese, ducks, turkeys, bees and more on her farm.
28. Moonmeadow Farm Blog: Read this blog to find lots of great photographs of life on the farm.
29. Whistling Wind Farm: On this blog, you'll see a family of three working and living on a five acre farm in Georgia.
30. Lizzy Lane Farm: This family is trying to make a living from what they produce on their farm.
31. Victoria Hill Farm: With bunnies and fancy chickens, these bloggers make homesteading look fun and stylish.
32. Tylerfarm Homestead: Located in Southern Maine, this homesteader shares experiences raising sheep and caring for a family farm.
33. Ironwood Farm Project: This family understands that their family farm is an ongoing project.
34. Nexus Farm and Alpacas: Learn more about this family raising alpacas on their farm from this blog.

Green

These bloggers are homesteading because they want to live greener, more sustainable lives.

35. Free Range Living: Blogger Cheryl shares her love of gardening, cooking and living green through this blog.
36. Fast Grow the Weeds: Learn more about this organic garden in Michigan through this blog.
37. AmLo Farms: This family only has a third of an acre to work with, yet they are doing their best to produce their own food and promote sustainable living with what they have.
38. NY Homesteader: Living in the Catskills, this blogger homesteads the organic way.
39. Subsistence Food Pattern: These homesteaders chose to go their own way and now focus on growing and gathering their own food.
40. Off-Grid: While not every post on this blog is about homesteading, you'll find loads of information about living without using tons of resources.
41. Nature's Harmony Farm: Find inspiration in this farm that produces its pigs and chickens organically and humanely.
42. Rehoboth Homestead: Learn more about this homestead that's fully focused on producing nutrient rich, organic produce.
43. Green Surviving Blog: On this blog, you can learn not only about homesteading but how to prepare your family for just about anything.

Urban

These bloggers are making homesteading in the city work for them.

44. Urban Homesteader: Get tips on cooking, recycling and homesteading in your own backyard from this blog.
45. Pluck and Feather: These bloggers are raising chickens and growing a garden in their urban backyard.
46. Green Thumb Mama: This mom maintains a huge organic garden and raises her own hens.
47. Empress of Dirt: Check out this blog for ideas and commentary on living a simple, frugal, healthy life on an urban homestead.
48. Homegrown Evolution: This blog proves that you can make homesteading a reality even if you don't live in the country.
49. Little Homestead in the City: Find inspiration in these homesteaders applying the techniques of rural life to a more urban setting.
50. Leda's Urban Homestead: From baking bread to living more sustainably, you'll find a wealth of homesteading and green living posts here.