Use coffee grounds and chaff around your urban farm to enhance your garden, make great compost, and provide a comfy place for chickens and rabbits to live.
Help a broody hen kick its nesting habit by providing her some fertile eggs to incubate.
Jen Good/Flickr As a backyard flock owner, it’s tempting to dismiss the Center for Disease Control’s warnings about close contact with your chickens being a health risk. It’s not like you have a factory farm with overcrowding that leads to disease, which leads to overuse of drugs, which leads to drug-resistant disease mutations, which spread […]
The dry heat of the southwestern U.S. poses unique challenges for backyard chicken keepers—but not anything you can’t overcome.
Protect your city flock’s feed from thieving sparrows and rodents with this no-waste feeder solution
Turn your cute pet rabbits into savvy business partners with these tips for marketing their fiber.
Many community-based resource-sharing organizations offer urban farmers the help and resources they need to get growing.
Leaving your chickens can be difficult—and finding a chicken sitter who understands your birds' routines can be even more difficult. Here's what to look for.
Lisa Steele Backyard chickens are all the rage nowadays in rural and urban areas alike. Many towns and even cities are changing their laws to allow a small flock of chickens, but why not consider a few ducks instead? Ducks might actually make more sense for your family and be easier on your yard […]
Still not allowed to keep chickens where you live? Something's gotta change.
Your backyard livestock have more to offer than eggs and milk: They can provide fertilizer for your garden as well.
When you own the tools and materials and have the know-how, building your own custom chicken coop can be one of the most rewarding aspects of keeping chickens.
