Back in the 1970s, the North Country was a hotspot for the back-to-the-land movement. Hippies abandoned city life to homestead in the country. Hundreds of communes and intentional communities sprung ...

Upon a manicured lawn deep in the Texas countryside, 12 small homes sit under the warm sun. The residents who call this exclusive, gated community home live an idyllic life, complete with fire pits, ...

Kristen Ghodsee, author of Everyday Utopia, talks about the benefits of communal living—or at least of embracing a broader definition of community. If you buy something using links in our stories, we ...

The plan started simply enough. As the pandemic forced schools to shutter in March, three families in a leafy corner of downtown Riverside banded together to make sure all their children kept learning ...

Growing up, writer Eleanor Anstruther enjoyed a life of privilege. Her father was a Tory baronet, a descendant of the 8th ...

HARDWICK, Mass. As fall shifts into winter in Hardwick, Massachusetts, temperatures are unseasonably high for November, and a 34-acre community built by a homesteading couple nearly four decades ago ...