homesteader

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You don’t need to become a homesteader or memorize the Farmer’s Almanac.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

“I also had this growing desire to be a homesteader for real. And then after a while I was just like, ‘I grew a tomato!

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

It all goes back to her father, Isaac Newton, the homesteader, and his perennial financial problems.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

The neighbors assumed that its new owner was planning to build a house — another homesteader, or a speculator, or maybe someone with roots finally coming home.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

I narrated my college life in exacting detail to both my parents like a homesteader dutifully providing dispatches from the frontier.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama