Not sure how many of you are aware of a brewing controversy but there's a Los Angeles area urban farm that has said that it has trademarked the terms "Urban Homestead" and "Urban Homesteading." There's a great blog post about it here, on the OC Weekly.
So, some very upset Urban Homesteaders have created a Facebook Fan page so that we can take back our term and they are asking people to go and like it. Here's the link:
Take-Back-Urban-Home-Steadings Facebook Fan Page
Oh, and here's the profile photo that they created for this fan page, I love it: