Photo by Audrey Pavia My three “missing” chickens are safe and sound. There’s a line in an old Joni Mitchell song: “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” This morning, I came to truly understand the meaning of those words. As per my usual routine, I stumbled out of bed and staggered outside […]
Virginia backyard gardener and Honey bee enthusiast Sue Mariner launches a petition to ban Bayer’s neonicontinoid pesticides.
Treat your small farm tractor right with a comprehensive daily, seasonal and annual maintenance program.
Periodically service your small farm tractor for optimal operation using this seasonal tractor maintenance checklist.
Before revving up your tractor’s engine for the workday, use this daily maintenance checklist ensure this important piece of small-farm equipment is running smoothly.
Photo by Rick Gush White asparagus is mostly grown in Germany, but I can find it here in Italy just fine. One of the things I love about the Internet is that it is full of lies, but it is also a great place to do research. So good, that I’ve gotten rid of all […]
Photo courtesy of PRNewsFoto/World Society for the Protection of Animals Luis Carlos Sarmiento of WSPA (left) hands 108,571 Pawprint petition signatures to the executive coordinators of Rio 20, Ms. Elizabeth Thompson (middle) and Mr. Brice Lalonde (right). The World Society for the Protection of Animals gave almost 110,000 signatures on its petition to improve treatment […]
I love how a good, sharp edge looks on a flower bed. Over the years, I have experimented with many different techniques and tools for getting a clean garden edge but have found one to be faster and easier than any other.
Photo by Judith Hausman I used farm-fresh greens to fill my calzone. Calzones are like amplified pizzas. The enclosed filling, often pillowed on top of ricotta, makes them neatly portable and somehow cozier than pizza, and they’re just as quick to compose. Traditionally, pizzerias serve calzones with a side of mild tomato sauce for dipping or […]
Build this wall-mounted bat house to foster bat habitats on the farm.
For a guy who likes tools, I really hate shopping for them. I want to add an angle grinder to my shop and have started the process.
Because of the many different ways Italian summer squash, or trumpets, can be grown, it has become one of my favorite crops.
