The Livin Farms Insect Hive offers a sustainable protein alternative.
Community gardens help land-strapped gardeners create a space where they can grow healthy food alongside their neighbors.
Fertilizing your garden could be as simple—and as free—as a drop in a bucket.
The Nutro Company/Facebook If you go in the pet food aisle of any store, you’re likely to see a large variety of products—probably more than you would have thought. There are plain, regular dry foods that don’t make too big a dent in your wallet. There are canned wet foods, some of which look fancier […]
Rachel Hurd Anger As the days grow shorter and colder, we often talk about how to care for chickens as the seasons change, and we’ll certainly discuss cold-weather care soon. But, the worst thing about chicken keeping as the seasons change isn’t the maintenance to help your flock survive the winter—in fact, depending on where […]
Instagram Living in a city does not provide much space for gardens. It’s great if you have a house with a large backyard, but that’s not the case for many city dwellers. If you’re confined to apartment living or have a townhouse, condo or house with not enough backyard space for a garden, you’re limited […]
Twitter NPR rescued a chicken yesterday, and it’s gotten lots of media attention. Seriously. Staffers at the Washington, D.C., location found a hen trying to cross the road (again, we’re not making this up) by the NPR headquarters. NPR posted a story about it, which included an interview with chicken expert and Arizona State University […]
AeroGarden/Facebook Despite what YouTube may have us believe, Miracle Gro’s popular indoor hydroponic garden, the AeroGarden, isn’t actually for amateur weed growers. Well, it may be to some degree, but the convenient countertop appliance is actually meant as a handy tool for all of us locavores wishing to play urban farmer from the bucolic environs […]
Even if you feel like the honeybee decline is hopeless, here’s what you can do to help protect bee species of all kinds.
Andrey Pavlov/Hemera/Thinkstock A certain amount of stress goes along with living in a city. It could be the smog that gets to you. It could be the large number of people, the cost, the traffic or a number of other factors. While we know that humans face these stressors daily, what we may not have […]
These small pests could cause a huge problem in your garden.
Tammy Scheers/YouTube In all the stories we’ve read or seen on television as children, pigs’ houses get blown down by big bad wolves, they go to market, they stay home and they’re friends with Bugs Bunny. In real life, not so much. But it’s the real-life antics of pigs that are so much more entertaining. […]
