KNOEJACKSON PARISH, La. (KNOE) - Homesteading is all about living off the land—and in Eros, Louisiana, that lifestyle was engaged as residents gathered for the town’s first-ever Miller Homestead Fair.
The event brought together local farmers, artisans, and homesteaders to share handmade goods, farming knowledge, and stories of self-sufficiency.
With guest speakers and hands-on demonstrations, the fair reflected a growing movement toward sustainable, intentional living.
Nearly a century after the federal government launched the Subsistence Homestead Program to help urban families find stability through rural living, the Miller Homestead Fair revives that vision.
The original program, created in 1933 during the Great Depression, aimed to relocate families from overcrowded cities to semirural
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