The revised edition of Harvey Ussery’s “The Small-Scale Poultry Flock” is an expanded guide to all-natural chicken-keeping for a variety of purposes.
Maintain health in your flock by providing herbs to sheep. Here, we look at a few plants commonly used to treat and prevent ailments in sheep.
Read about how beekeeper Stephanie Grant of Sassy Bee Honey in Wilmington, Delaware, puts hive mentality to work for hobby-business success.
If you love chickens but can't commit to full-time education, consider becoming an NPIP tester to monitor disease spread among chicken flocks.
You can raise sheep as meat livestock on very small acreage for minimal investment—but you need to take a few steps to keep your costs in check.
Donkeys are effective livestock guardian animals against predatory canines, though good training and certain considerations are important for keepers.
This round of "Say Cheese" contenders includes perky piglets, goats gathered in greeting, a kitten playing peek-a-boo and much more!
Birds will find their way into your farm outbuildings, and your best best is to discourage most of them from nesting. Here are a few things you can do.
Considering hand-raising beef cattle for your family's needs? Here are 8 tips to keep in mind when buying homestead cattle for the first time.
Ruby Wolf Farm founder Lauren Slingluff tells us how early memories of her mom's floor loom helped inspire her own fiber farm.
Clint and Bobbi Jo Finney breathe new life into their Spring Valley Stock Farms and surrounding community with rotational grazing and regenerative farming.
From mice to skunks to bears (and even people), predators can do a number on bees, so follow these easy steps to keep trouble at bay.
