Use essential oils and farm-grown herbs to make repellents for ants, flies, moths and other bugs that crawl and buzz.
Whether used for medicinal or culinary purposes, herbs are the darlings of our farm gardens. Pick the highest-quality herbs possible with these harvesting tips.
As much as we hate to admit it, farm injuries happen. In my most recent debacle, I learned a few tips to minimize the pain of going through the healing process.
This gardening apron small enough that it doesn’t get it the way while I’m working and has pockets big enough to keep essential tools close at hand.
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. –Laura Ingalls Wilder
One of the easiest things you can do to boost your garden soil’s health, composting takes only minutes a day and will cut down on your energy and water bills, too!
Give your soil the nutritional boost it needs to support a healthy and delicious garden by weighing the benefits of foliar feeding and soil amending.
If the secret to great-tasting, nutritious vegetables is in your soil, it's about time you read this book.
Traditional red beet varieties like Red Ace, Detroit Dark Red, and Kestrel are standard fare in my garden. They’re nice, but my heart belongs to two varieties of heirloom beets: Chioggia and Golden.
We just registered the prairie habitat on our farm Mockingbird Meadows with Monarch Watch and are expanding the plants we grow for them.
Photo by Judith Hausman Spring soup? Well, yes, it has finally started to warm up in New York’s Hudson Valley, but a light, healthful soup, made quickly with a garden’s first offerings, can still tempt me. After a perfect Mothers Day morning of getting this year’s petunias in place and finally moving the overwintered geraniums […]
