You're most familiar with botulism in your home-canned goods, but did you know it can affect your chickens?
JPLDesigns/iStock/Thinkstock Flowers for Dreams, a startup out of Chicago that donates portions of its proceeds to charity, is partnering with Cook County Jail as part of the facility’s urban farming initiative, Huffington Post reports. The program gives qualifying inmates the chance to tend the urban farm while learning horticulture, teamwork and job readiness skills. The […]
Expand your potato repertoire beyond the traditional Russet with these eye-catching varieties.
Growing Experience Urban Farm/Facebook Californians have been living through a drought. Watering is only allowed on certain days and being water wise is advertised everywhere. So how do those with urban farms maintain their crops and still conserve water? The Growing Experience in Long Beach provides food weekly to 15 individuals and local restaurants, L.A. […]
This black chicken is known as the Ayam Cemani. Only recently available in the U.S., these unusual birds have captured the attention of chicken keepers.
No one likes being stuck in traffic. Whenever we see the red taillights ahead of us, we can’t help wondering what the holdup is. It could be an accident or some driver getting a ticket. It could be a flat tire or a stall. Then there are the times when it’s none of those things. […]
Rachel Hurd Anger Adding to an existing flock in the city is tricky. Usually, we only want females. We aren’t allowed enough chickens on our property to breed, and because many roosters are prone to aggression and overbreeding, they’re often too dangerous to have around our small flock of laying hens. Plus, many cities […]
The USDA’s 16th annual National Farmers Market Week takes place Aug. 2 to 8, 2015.
Noisy cicada’s are a sign of summer and a danger to your fruit trees, but the cicada killer wasp comes to the rescue.
