Across social media and real estate listings, you are told that a few acres and a garden can buy your way out of inflation, burnout, and fragile supply chains. Yet when you start running the numbers, ...

The Homestead Act attracted thousands of settlers to The West with 160 acres of free land. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any citizen who had never borne arms against the U.S. government ...

Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. However, the program ...