Looking for some new animals to add to your small farm? Consider sheep, lively livestock with year-round profit potential for hobby farmers.
Ready to up your compost game? Start a worm bin to convert your leftovers and organic materials into worm compost (and grow tasty treats for your chickens).
Looking for some added profits from your land? Turn your edible crop farm into a sod and turf farm for an alternative way to make some green.
Thinking about getting some laying hens this year? Experienced keepers offer up a chicken tip (or two) they wish they'd known earlier.
Which states top the nation in numbers of organic-certified farms? Here are the 12 in the lead, ranked according to a per-person basis.
It's hard to believe another year has passed. As 2019 bids us goodbye, one farmer shares his farming resolutions for 2020.
The Combes family in California’s Central Valley turned a few acres of dirt into a multispecies hobby farm, using livestock for regenerative agriculture.
Want to learn new homesteading skills in 2020? Great! Here are 20 skills to learn, practice and add to your search for self-sustenance.
Want to get a jump on Mother Nature this growing season? You can use plant starts and be ready to plant when spring rolls around.
Ginseng is an easy and profitable plant with an ancient medicinal tradition. And you can grow ginseng in your garden, in plots or in unused woodlands.
By themselves or combined with other materials, shelf fungi are pretty, plentiful and perfect for making handmade mushroom paper.
Don't waste time, energy and resources on inefficient practices. Lean farming helps you do more with less for a happier, more productive farm life.
