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 this past Saturday, October 11th. 

The event sponsored by Amy Hatten Miller and the Miller Cattle Company in Eros brought together local farmers, artisans, and homesteaders to share handmade goods and farming knowledge as guest speakers from four different parishes spoke about how they began their homestead journey and even started small farm businesses to live a more self-sustainable life. 

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 revived that vision. 

Participants also got to enjoy communicating with vendors who brought their game and quality artisan products, many of them made with farm by-products such as tallow, honey, and goat’s milk, as well as woodwork, hand-crafted jewelry, and other products.