Here’s an excerpt from the book, “Hentopia,” that’s filled with DIY projects, including this feeder made from a plastic bucket.

These items look alike but play different roles in chicken nutrition and health. They’re each necessary, and they’re not interchangeable.

Saffron carries a high entry cost, but in subsequent years this crop with three marketable elements can provide a big profit margin.

Let your flock forage during the day and get natural nutrition while you also protect your garden from getting “fowled” up.

Apples used to make hard cider are quite different than sweet varieties made for eating. Here’s what you need to know about apples for the hard cider market.

You can buy crickets at bait stores or pet-supply retailers, or you can grow your own. Here’s what you need and how it works.

Here’s what you need to know to grow hops to either sell in the expanding craft-brewery market or to get the home-brewed beer flavors you love.

If you have a small garden or limited areas for your chickens to forage for greens, try a few of the following tips.

With the right production system, a farmer can grow many hundreds of pounds of oyster mushrooms per year in a relatively small indoor space. Here’s how it works.

Chickens get snacks in the form of bugs that eat wood chips, and you eventually get compost from the wood chips and chicken poop.