Ready to turn your horticultural hobby into a business venture? These 10 specialty crops combine the joy of growing with income earning potential.
Bottle-feeding a lamb should never be your first option, but it's important to know how to feed a rejected or orphaned lamb in case it becomes necessary.
Give your soil a boost with some homemade compost tea. In this book excerpt, author Chris McLaughlin tells you how to "brew" your own.
Bria Stambaugh from Udder Chaos, a North Carolina-based hobby farm, tells us about the joys of surrounding yourself with goats.
Not all Chick Days purchases have happy endings. Here’s why a new chick might fall ill and what you should do if your baby peep dies.
In the last video, I planned and sited the space for my new farm garden shed, so now it's time to choose a foundation, get level and square things up.
Farms needs barns, coops, sheds and more, and deciding what to add when can be confusing. Here's how to think about outbuildings for your farm.
Livestock guardian dogs are invaluable farm helpers, but if roaming becomes an issue you can try a GPS collar that trains and contains animals in a set area.
Self-confessed chicken enthusiast Emily Loflin tells us about the joys of raising chicks at Ems Eggers, her Northern California hobby farm.
With good planning, follow-through and, yes, patience, you can have a (nearly) maintenance-free pollinators' paradise prairie in about three years.
Half the fun of shopping through seed, garden and nursery catalogs is looking for new plants to try. Here are three plants I'm excited to try growing for the first time.
Coyotes and foxes are two of the most common chicken predators. Here's how to determine which is around and what to do about it.
