Hobby Farms
Spending time with your flock, observing behaviors, and inspecting each chicken for injury and illness are important chores to add to the daily or weekly to-do list. You know your flock and its individual personalities best, which makes spotting problems easy. I keep a close eye on my Silver-Laced Wyandotte, Pauline. She’s my heaviest chicken, […]
It seems as though none of your crops are safe from the destruction of powdery mildew, but here’s how you can stop this disease in its tracks.
My favorite vertical gardening methods save space in the garden and help promote an abundant, disease-free harvest.
We have two new sheep on our farm. One is a young ewe named Tansy and the other is her newborn daughter, Pasha. They’re hair sheep—a mixture of Katahdin and Dorper.
Modern plasticulture technology could be the small-scale farmer’s solution to a more productive farm.
Scientists use CT scans to learn more about how plants respond to drought and disease.
Sometimes people ask our mom, “What is your favorite bird?” They think she’s kidding when she says “the vulture,” but she’s not.
Keep your livestock and yourself safe from Q fever with these management tips.
One of Mom’s friends rescued Sweetie, the Pygmy goat, but now Sweetie needs a home so she’s come to live with us on our farm.
Nine aphid-cell proteins indicate aphids’ plant-virus-carrying capabilities, a USDA study finds.
