You might have seen these insects lurking around your garden. Find out how to identify them and keep these pests off your precious edibles.
Kiwi vines grow fairly well if you watch for PSA and temperature changes.
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Thinkstock The Beacon Food Forest mixes forested areas with fruit trees and shrubs, as well as gardening patches. Residents of the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle came up with a plan to transform an unused tract of land into an urban food forest. Despite robust community support, creating the Beacon Food Forest, […]
I stopped by the farm-supply store to get mulch and almost got suckered. To get to the mulch, of course, you have to walk right by the baby chicks peeping and pecking and practically begging to be taken home.
Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains how to safely mount a skid steer using the three-point rule.
Use a generator safely on your farm with tips from Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen.
Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains the importance of keeping a well-maintained generator on the farm.
Limit your farmhouse energy use and save energy costs with these guidelines from someone who’s made the cut.
A study performed out of UC Davis finds that some farmers subscribe to a broader definition to "community-supported agriculture” and that a whole new demographic is jumping in on the action.
So there we were with a partially unpacked bed, a floor away from where it was supposed to be. To complicate things, I wasn't sure if the construction, as solid as it appeared, could handle the torque that would occur with my wife and I wrestling it through the house and down a set of stairs.
Give your family a relaxing place to enjoy an outdoor meal or gaze over the farm by building a pergola over the farmhouse patio area.
Photo by Audrey Pavia Cheddar enjoyed his camping trip this weekend. One of the perks of being a professional writer is that you get to research the stuff you are writing about. When the editors of Cat Fancy magazine agreed to have me write an article on traveling with cats for their August 2012 issue, […]
