Before you prepare this year’s garden bed, select the best amendment for your soil type.
Raising bugs instead of beef? You bet—for food, research and fun, insects may be the farm animal of the future.
Saffron, considered one of the world’s most expensive spices, comes from a flower that can be grown right on your farm.
Chickens talk, squawk, sing, play, run, hide—they're as entertaining as any domestic pet you'll ever meet.
Offer the Easter Bunny a treat of his own by helping your kids plant a basket with wheatgrass.
When it comes to choosing a pot for container gardening, the material it’s made of matters.
A mucky pond is a waste of farmland space. Dredge and refill it so you can stock it with fish and have a place to swim or water livestock.
In a climate where you can garden year-round, you can’t depend on winter to do the dirty work for you.
If you can’t make it to the West Coast to visit Fat Uncle Farms, don’t worry: You can still have your almonds and eat them, too.
As we move into spring, I’ll be on the lookout for one of my favorite signs that the season is changing: the blooms of the redbud tree.
Every year I look forward to my local newspaper’s holiday haiku contest. Its many ‘winners’ see their poems published in the Christmas edition of the Courier-Journal. In 2014, a sign nailed to a mailbox post stating “Fresh Eggs” inspired me to submit this: ”Fresh Eggs!” shingles read. Yoking to activism, Metro Cluckers flock. When we […]
Harvest cattails from ponds you trust to use in a variety of dishes, from sautéing to baking.
