I do hope to end up there eventually, but I think the government ended homesteading back in the 80s sadly.

Homesteading is a lifestyle.

Government can't "end" it any more than it can end partying.

If you're talking about the ability to live off the land you don't own and owning land without paying taxes, that's a different story.

The US government passed Homestead Acts back in the 1800s where they gave away plots of land, called homesteads, (like 10% of the country) for free. It's a lifestyle, for sure, but living off land you don't own isn't what I was referring to. I think the last homesteads (free land) were given away in the 1980s.