These cold-hardy winter crops including kale and Brussels sprouts produce through the cold-weather months until spring.
North America is home to about 100 species of wild silk moths, some of which have wingspans of 7 inches—and fierce-looking caterpillars.
Replacing mechanized equipment with these human-powered tools reduces your fossil-fuel use and lets you tread more carefully on your land.
Far more than just the nocturnal cousin to the lovely butterfly, moths are beautiful, important contributors to the ecosystem.
Do you want to be a farmer? Here are the basic questions you need to answer to realize this dream.
Each cocoon produced by silkworms can produce an unbroken strand of silk that stretches to a mile and a half. Learn more about sericulture.
The invasive, odiferous tree of heaven attracts pollinators but is toxic to other plants. It has human medicinal uses, but cutting alone encourages more growth.
If a farm-related investment falls into one, two or more of these categories, it's near certain to pay for itself in short order.
Fall-blooming plants make your garden more beautiful, but they also provide necessary nutrition to a broad diversity of wildlife.
Photographing the right things at the right time, and labeling them correctly, can bring you new customers through Instagram.
By having the right chicken breeds and adding proper light, you can continue to produce and collect farm-fresh eggs through winter.
Katydids have numerous calls of different lengths, and robotics researchers have even used the insects to send messages into the environment.
