Search

latest articles

Learn to Use the Proper Nails for Your Farm Needs

Equipment
|

Nails come in so many varieties, it can be hard to know which kind you need for specific projects. Here are some common types.

No-Till Growing: Build Garden Soil Health by Doing Less

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
|

No-till farming is quite popular with people who maintain permaculture systems, but it's a good idea to apply to backyard gardens, too.

Healing Herbs: Use These 7 for Pain Relief

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
|

Herbs can often help calm muscles, tendons and ligaments, as well as soothe the body’s pains. Here's a selection of our favorites.

College Campuses Participate in Protecting Pollinators

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening | News |
|

Bee Campus USA, an extension of the existing Bee City USA, has faculty, staff and students educate the public and create habitats beneficial to pollinators.

Learn the Many Uses of Wintergreen

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading |
|

This herb is a flavoring agent for gum, candy and toothpaste, but it also has medicinal uses via tea and infused oils. You can grow wintergreen yourself.

Author Shows How & Why “Happy Pigs Taste Better”

Animals | Farm Management | Homesteading | Large Animals | News |
|

Alice Percy provides detailed instructions for humanely raising pigs on pasture in a book that's valuable to homesteader and commercial farmer alike.

Grow, Dry & Prepare Catnip for Yourself & Your Cat

Animals | Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Large Animals |
|

Whether you want to pour yourself a cup of catnip tea or make your kitty a catnip-stuffed toy, this is one versatile purr-ennial.

Control Honeysuckle While Using It to Your Benefit

Farm Management | Homesteading |
|

Honeysuckle can be invasive and overtake native plants, but you can help control populations of the shrub with these DIY projects.

An Antique Woodbox Connects Me to My Farm’s Past

Equipment
|

Some 50 years after leaving the farm where it was built, an antique woodbox with a special construction style finally returns home.

Learn the Basics of Becoming an Herbalist

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
|

As an herbalist, you can create products that have great flavor, nutrition and healing properties. Turn your home and garden into an herbal medicine chest.

The Wisdom of Women Farmers, Part 2: Thoughts on Money

Farm Management | Homesteading | News |
|

Five women farmers over 50 share insight about their experiences in life and agriculture. In this second segment, the topic is money.

Want to Help Save the Monarch? Be a Citizen Scientist

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | News | Urban Farming |
|

Volunteering to report your observations helps conservationists to better gauge and manage threats to the monarch butterfly.

Get Hobby Farms content
delivered straight to your inbox!

Copyright © 2026 EG Media Investments LLC. All rights reserved.