Editing Homesteading (section)

==As a social movement==

The attractiveness of [[back-to-the-land]] movements dates from the [[Roman Empire|Roman era]], and has been noted in [[Asia]]n poetry and philosophy tracts as well ([[Agriculturalism]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/1340/article/69/vital.cities.an.interview.with.jane.jacobs|title=Vital Cities: an interview with Jane Jacobs - Tools Ideas Environment - Whole Earth Catalog|website=www.wholeearth.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-25|archive-date=2017-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825183937/http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/1340/article/69/vital.cities.an.interview.with.jane.jacobs|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1700s, the philosophy of [[physiocracy]] developed in France and by the 1800s and early 1900s the philosophy of [[Agrarianism]] had taken hold in many places around the world. The ideas of modern homesteading proponents, such as [[Ralph Borsodi]], gained in popularity in the 1960s in the United States. Self-sufficiency movements in the 1990s and 2000s began to apply the concept to urban and suburban settings, known as [[urban homesteading]]. According to author [[John Seymour (author)|John Seymour]], "urban homesteading" incorporates small-scale [[sustainable agriculture]] and [[homemaking]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Why_homestead__63__/|title=Why homestead?|last=Anna|website=www.waldeneffect.org|access-date=2017-08-25|archive-date=2017-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825144747/http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Why_homestead__63__/|url-status=live}}</ref>