Selling to restaurants provides steady income and also lets you tell people where your products are served. Here are skills and practices to get chefs' attention.
Backyard flocks might not fly with the seasons, yet their wild instincts play an important role in social bonds and creating a collaborative community.
Female broilers grow slower than males, yet they have their own benefits and considerations for your meat production.
Consistency at farmers markets or in CSAs strengthens your customer base. Here are crops that help you achieve that all year.
That overabundance of acorns is not a mistake, but rather trees' coordinated effort to reproduce, affecting rodents, insects and humans.
Eliot Coleman refines and modernizes the methods he introduced in the book's first edition 30 years ago.
Winterizing a backyard pond isn't difficult, but it does have several important steps. Learn how to prepare your backyard water feature for the winter.
You can grow turnips year-round in some areas, and while they're not always the easiest vegetable to sell, try these methods to find and attract buyers.
An application to help track planting and maintenance records, a generator, a starter ATV and a seed planter and sower are among items our editors found.
With a combination of cover, timing, drought-tolerant crops and creative water sources, you can grow food without irrigation.
These selections cover areas including chickens, vegetable crops, container gardening, women hobby farmers, homesteading and aquaponics.
Overgrazing can be a concern, especially for small farms with limited grazing areas. Here's what you need to promote regrowth through rotation.
