Very good article. I think some people may have missed something you wrote because it was just in passing. That's your "rented homestead".

Just because you don't own your own land and home doesn't mean you can't homestead. Sure you may be investing in someone else's property but you get the benefits now.

We rent a home in a small town in a subdivision but the landlord has allowed us to turn, at this point, half of the backyard into garden.

You don't have be an owner to reap the benefits of homesteading.