Frank Hyman

It’s important to provide appropriate rations for poultry, but your chickens will enjoy food scraps, too. Check out these “free” foods for the coop!

You don’t need an advanced-science degree or superhuman strength to compost effectively. These tips will get you composting in no time.

You can grow your own mushrooms at home, in the basement or or dark space, to enjoy in meals and even sell at local markets. Here’s how.

In this excerpt from “How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying,” Frank Hyman talks about foraging oyster mushrooms, preparing and preserving them and more.

In this excerpt from “How to Forage Mushrooms without Dying,” Frank Hyman takes a look at a favorite, flavorful fungus: Chicken of the Woods.

Through a mixture of verbal noises and non-verbal behaviors and cues, chickens have a rich vocabulary, from warning of dangers to naming their keeper.

Daylilies are wildly common in flower gardens, but did you know the plants are as edible as they are beautiful? From petals down to its tubers, a daylily offers tons of surprising flavor.

Hostas are plenty common in ornamental gardens, but did you know you can eat them, too? Both the shoots and leaves are edible and delicious.

With a voracious appetite for barnyard bugs, chickens are not naturally vegetarians, and it’s OK (even beneficial) to give your flock meat now and again.

Considered the sign of an ill-kept farm by many, the prickly, persistent and surprisingly tasty bull thistle is best dealt with slathered in cream cheese or sautéed.