homesteading and sustainable living sites

There are hundreds of homesteading sustainable living sites, I am reviewing a few.

Mother Earth News It isn't in my opinion very user friendly. Although it has sections such as Do-It yourself, Real food, and Green homes I feel the sections are too broad. I believe they need sub sections such as in the Real food category I would sub categorize by type of meal. As it stands when you click on Real food you see a couple articles with pictures and have to click a link below those first few to browse all articles. When browsing articles there is a list with a small description next to each titled article. You must comb through the list reading titles to try and find what it is you are looking for. There is a search tool, however one term you choose to search for may be contained in many articles some of which may have nothing to do with what it is you are truly searching for.

Mother Earth News is a magazine so there are pop ups asking if you want to buy a subscription to their magazine. For me it popped up every so many clicks.

My favorite part of the site is the Land for sale section. You can search for acres of land for sale based on the state you are searching for property in. I would long term love to have a main home on at least 10 acres of land. I would also like a vacation home up north on some acres on a lake that can be boated on and fished from. You are supposed to be able to sort the list after you chose a state by price or county. When I tried sorting by price it sorted it by the most expensive, I would have liked to sort it by either the highest to lowest or the other way around. When I tried to sort by county it reloaded the page, but it was not sorted by county...I did try multiple times to see if it would sort by that category and got no result from it.

Homestead has a few articles on the front page of their website, but the meat of their site is found when you click on the index. The index brings you to their library where there is a list of sections such as food, lifestyle, land. Once you click on the category you want you get another list of articles on that subject. There is not a lot of articles listed, however the ones that they do have are very informative. The only thing I found that I did not like is that when you click on the article you want to read it opens in (for me I use firefox) another tab.

Urban homestead is about a family that is homesteading and living a self sustaining lifestyle in the most unlikely of places, the city. This site is about how they do that. Although there are some interesting articles that leave you saying hmmm there weren't a lot of articles that I found worth reading.

Backwoods Home is another magazine website. On the front of their website they have the articles from their current issue as well as their most popular articles. There is an article index on the left side of the web page. The two categories I like the most that I thought had the best more informative articles were self reliance and making saving money.