By assessing your farm goals and needs, you can determine the best method of managing your farm.
Courtesy Doug Buerlein Some of the produce grown in the Village Garden, Whole Foods Market’s first community garden, will be used in the grocery store’s salad bar and cooking classes. A store in the Richmond, Va., metro area is giving the term “farm to market” a refreshing new meaning by becoming the first Whole Foods […]
Photo courtesy the Orange County Fair Hungry piglets hurl themselves on their way to the trough during a race at the Orange County Fair. Urban farming has its limits. It’s rare an urban farmer has enough room for to all the different kinds of critters you would typically see on a farm. So what can […]
I may be jinxing myself, but as of this point, I have managed to escape the late blight-fest on my tomatoes.
I’m a big lumbering lummox sort of guy, and maybe that’s part of why I’m fascinated with all the little creatures on the planet.
Courtesy USDA/ Michael Smith The USDA is working to eradicate Asian longhorned beetles that are infesting and killing hardwood trees in the Northeast and the Midwest. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service needs help detecting and preventing the spread of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), a serious pest of hardwood trees. Federal, […]
It didn't take long for our young turkeys to outgrow the portable pen we use each year to raise meat chickens.
Photo by Judith Hausman My beans growing in Bob and Karen’s backyard. Around here, book club is the inner circle, the first network to consult for advice on nearly anything: electricians, school board candidates, pie crust. Ours (The Salem Witches) is fluid but committed; there’s always a quorum of very smart women with a list […]
Courtesy Christie Mole During Transition Milwaukee’s Power Down Week in June 2010, members of the Wisconsin transition initiative built a cob oven and baked pizza and muffins. (The group reports that their baked goods were delicious.) The pace of change is accelerating, and much of it is neither encouraging nor hopeful—as is seen most recently […]
Holy blueberries! Hands down this has been the best year for blueberries I have ever had.
