The vegetable garden is looking good! The lettuce is nearly ready to harvest, the carrots are an inch high, the chard is developing its first true leaves, and the cole crops are growing like weeds.
Many small-scale farmers understand the benefits of doing business cooperatively. To celebrate that model, the U.N. names 2012 International Year of Cooperatives.
For Jennifer Bice, owner of Redwood Hill Farm and Creamery, in Sebastopol , Calif., pursuing the right livelihood has always been about following your passions and caring for the land and the animals that roam on it.
Photo by Judith Hausman Cooked, seasonal vegetables pair well with these savory chickpea pancakes. Vegetarian main dishes appeal to me as transitions from heartier winter stews and soups to lighter dinners that showcase the newest spring arrivals. Spring onions, chives and over-wintered leeks replace winter’s onions and shallots, and other renewed crops of herbs and mushrooms link […]
Does anyone else ever get "neat idea" overload? I recently received an email with photos of neat ideas—like using a comb to hold a nail to be hammered ... no more bruised thumbs!
Photo by Audrey Pavia Mr. Molly, crowing his brains out. When I first got my chickens, a friend on a chicken message board warned me that the crowing of bantam cocks could be quite annoying. Unlike standard-size roosters, their crows are higher-pitched and irritating. I was so in love with my two little roos that […]
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock Guerrilla Grafters is converting city streets into food forests. Taking the underground gardening movement to a new level, San Francisco-based activist group, Guerrilla Grafters, helps fruit grow — on urban, non-fruit-bearing trees. The ultimate goal is to “turn city streets into food forests.” There are many public ornamental fruit trees lining […]
My son's bus driver gave me a small paper bag last fall—it was filled with Egyptian walking onions.
Beat the pests that feast on your crops by creating bat habitats on your farm.
If the process of getting the bed parts into place was a hassle, it was our fault, not that of the company.
Process fiber from your farm flock with this simple cleaning and carding method.
