{"id":44,"count":8,"description":"Homesteading is defined as a lifestyle of self-sufficiency associated with traditional skills to complement life off the grid. Rural America utilizes traditional skills including gardening, food prep, cooking on fire, canning, distilling, animal husbandry, wildlife harvesting, fishing, blacksmithing, gunsmithing, sawmilling, carpentry, welding, fabrication, bees, textile weaving, and outdoor meat smoking as a way of life. \u201cThe Grid\u201d is a social engineering direction that insures all Americans, mail, electric, natural gas, phone, internet, public schools, 4G\/5G and even car charging stations. The vision of the 1960\u2019s matured the political concept that government infrastructure will attract the masses, folks will abandon the rural American way of life for the centralized cities. The USDA engineered an alternative direction that separated farmers\/ ranchers from homesteaders in an effort to control the American food chain. Rural America homesteaders had high character, traditional skills, honesty, and willingness to work, married to self-sufficient structures that complement life with or without government infrastructure. Political impatience to control the red states, forced folks in rural America to reinforce their lifestyles, this time with modern technology, engineering, equipment, building systems, energy systems, including alternative fuels, solar, water and wind power. Homesteaders have developed self-sufficient business models to plant\/ grow vegetables, herbs, fruits, ornamental plants, harvest natural botanicals, raise heritage livestock, poultry, honey, craft distilleries, blacksmithing, and equipment manufacturing. The Makers IP team history dates back to Plymouth Rock, live on the land, remain stewards of the traditional homestead lifestyle, embrace all modern technologies, and refuse to abandon common sense food security.\r\n\r\n.","link":"https:\/\/makersip.com\/index.php\/category\/homestead-crafts\/","name":"Homestead & Crafts","slug":"homestead-crafts","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makersip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makersip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makersip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/makersip.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}