Frank Hyman

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.

Controlled burns can be useful, but even with training and tools, a burn can quickly become a runaway wildfire. Here are safety tips.

Broody hen? New member of the flock? Injured bird? My method of temporarily separating chickens from their peers is an old dog crate.

Here’s how to build an in-ground worm bin (and what to feed the worms) so your flock can chow down during cold-weather months.

An expert on repair and restoration of barns and other farm buildings guides you through evaluating and executing the work to keep them sound.