Gardening is an activity the entire family can enjoy together—with plenty to learn in the process.
Manage your property’s storm-water runoff while also growing delicious fruits and vegetables by including these edibles in your rain garden.
Mites can make your chickens uncomfortable and ill, and they can even lead to death. Learn four ways to treat your birds with natural products.
The temptation to keep the free volunteer tomatoes in your garden may be hard to resist, but do yourself a favor and get them outta there.
With an election year in sight, you can bet the political climate is going to get a bit more heated than usual—especially when it comes issues surrounding food. Cue debate on welfare reform. Farmers—both rural and urban—are familiar with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka SNAP) and likely have varying opinions on how it’s […]
Chickens are good at finding places to dust bathe. They will snuggle up between the roots of old trees, lie down in the garden, and fluff their feathers in decomposing mulch. Dust bathing absorbs oil from their skin, and wood ash coats the skin to become a barrier protecting from mite infestations. As a preventive […]
While ladybugs are always welcome in the garden, the invasive species that takes over your house in the winter may not be.
Tired of struggling to unpeel a hard-boiled egg at Easter? We've got a technique that will leave your shells easy to peel and your yolks a beautiful yellow.
Ladybugs, more accurately ladybird beetles, are a group of many species of beetles, most of which prey on garden pests.
Chickens talk, squawk, sing, play, run, hide—they're as entertaining as any domestic pet you'll ever meet.
