During summer you can "make hay while the sun shines," but you can't make hay without appropriate gloves to protect your hands.
"Crickets" is often slang for "boring," but real crickets tell us a lot about what's happening through the sounds they do—or don't—make.
Here's how to grow, harvest, dry and store chamomile. You can use it to make soothing tea that has various health benefits.
Foraging for wild plants, an activity that's rooted deep in my bones, takes a special place in my heart on the farm.
Wasps are like bees in some ways, but they also eat meat—including insects that are garden menaces. Learn more about the wasp.
Cucumber plants can produce a lot, so you might find yourself with a surplus. Here are alternative ways to sell your cucumbers.
Winter moths are a common pest in much of New England and parts of the Pacific Northwest. Learn how to ID this insect and limit its feeding damage.
Is the latest always the greatest? Not necessarily, when it comes to tractors. A restored Massey Ferguson 135 shows that old tractors still have use on hobby farms.
The muskrat is much smaller than the beaver, but it's a similarly crafty rodent that can disrupt farm waterways. Learn how to prevent that.
You might not have found it yet, but your landscape is filled with food and medicine during the summer, and no cultivation is required. Here are several things you might find.
A comprehensive sanitation regimen lessens the possibility of making people ill and can also increase your revenue. Here's how.
The plow and disc are the preferred field-treatment method of many organic farmers. Here are the basics on how they work.
