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Shouldn't bees be returning soon? By Amanda Budd For some of us, it’s been a long, cold, and sometimes snowy winter. As summertime pollinators faded from view, you may be wonde...
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Sun, sand, sustainability! I may have grown up a “Cheesehead” in Wisconsin, but as a F...
Learn key design tips from the best Matt Duboise built his first chicken coop from mater...
Cream Legbar: blue eggs with auto-sexing Are you looking for a feisty, savvy, self-rel...
The next yield is a question mark Raise your hand if you still remember the old Pete See...
Why limit yourself to a farmers market? Knitting is a comforting task that’s pleasantly ...
How brown and green equal garden gold By Samantha Johnson Garden soil supports the roots...
How to know when your fence needs repair and what to do if it does
How testing, timing and location make all the difference
Five ideas to sustain your acreage It can be hard to decide what commodities one might...
You probably had breakfast with this breed and didn’t know it
An evolving organic cidery, made on the farm “Return to Almar” sounds like a romantic no...
Do you weed it or eat it? When weeding your garden, you’ve probably removed this famil...
How 'California ruins everything': Prop 12 seems worthwhile, but…
Hit it hard, hit it often…but who gives out first, you or the weed? Organic apple grower...
Turning Sonoma farm fleece into natural household wool products Sonoma W...
Know your soil for better garden results this season
A backyard favorite for all the right reasons All-American, beautiful, a high producer, an...
Will technology save the American farmer? The future is already here, at least partly. R...
What, you don’t have fencing tools on your Christmas list?! Okay, we get it. Tools are u...
No grass? No bugs? No problem. By Patrick Biggs, Ph.D., Purina chicken nutritionist
Best Practices and Solutions By Rocio Espinoza
Fall weather signals molting season—don’t worry, it’s normal
Who's been helping you take care of your little piece of the world?
Adaptable, prolific, useful, and healthful—what’s not to like?
Why this farm was sustainable
Be ‘tick smart’ with your garden, yard, and clothing
Dairy, food waste turned into rich compost
An interview with Mike Lizotte about seeds, wildflowers, and planting a meadow garden
Imagine growing plants all year long
Attracting hunters can bring in dollars to your acreage Leasing your land to hunters is a ...
Once you try some of these, you'll wonder how you lived without them!
Look to greenhouses, coverings to keep plants producing
Grubbets - High protein oven-dried BSF larvae are now available on Amazon!
As you read this, your garden is almost in full swing. The late last frost date for us in ...
Most don’t often think of chickens promoting good health—except for their eggs, maybe—but ...
April 21st, 2020 marked the 94th birthday of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and...
If you are looking for a glorious, stately, dignified backyard chicken with incredible egg...
Even when the calendar says spring is officially here, in many parts of the country it sti...
The hardest part of horse ownership is the end of your journey together. For most of our h...
Chances are you’ve run across the term “organic” in the past decade. After its introductio...
Chick season is here and poultry owners across the U.S. are making lists and placing order...
Customers can struggle with the correlation between their premiums and the coverages assoc...
Getting your tractor ready for spring can be a daunting process, but if you properly winte...
Chickens are like all other animals that can become injured or sick and require immediate ...
Interstate 35 winds from Duluth, Minn. to Laredo, Texas and none of it is tropical, except...
Large and impressive, with a distinctive appearance that defines “the American West,” biso...
The deadline to purchase your Federal Crop (Multi Peril Crop Insurance) on your corn and s...
You probably spend an awful lot of cumulative hours holding your horse for your farrier—es...
If you are looking to add some stateliness, beauty, and tenderness to your flock, look no ...
Later this month we’ll all take a day (mostly) out of the barn to celebrate Thanksgiving. ...
I have owned and bred Silkie chickens exclusively for more than thirteen years. I started ...
Tractor Supply’s Fall Paper Clover Program Raises $967,681 for 4-H Youth Nationwide
If I’ve learned anything about horsekeeping in my time, it’s that it bears a remarkable re...
Halloween is on the horizon, which means that we’ll soon be surrounded by pumpkins, bats, ...
Winter is coming, and if you keep chickens that means breaking out the heated waterers, bu...
Predators are probably the number one cause of chicken death in backyard flocks. I hear st...
A bee swarm! To non-beekeepers, it’s a frightening mental image of thousands of angry bees...
“Adopt, don’t shop” is a motto in the world of dogs and cats, but it’s also becoming a mor...
If you live in an area where horse-keeping is common, chances are good you’ve found yourse...
Summer is delightful if you’re a human, but not always quite so wonderful if you’re a rabb...
First, let’s announce some good news for Highland cattle! The Livestock Conservancy, an or...
For the small-scale farmer who wants to try keeping livestock for the first time, there ar...
No matter what type of riding you do with your horse, every four to six weeks you’re deali...
We have all heard stories of chickens that are big snuggle bunnies or chickens that will j...
In August 2018, a wildfire traveled across the top of the ridge on Glenn Elzinga’s Aldersp...
If you’re anything like me, the end of winter brings with it a certain kind of stir-crazy ...
Horses and people have a relationship that extends back millennia. That relationship has e...
Answers to seven questions about the Australian Shepherd. There’s just something special...
Do you know their 3 key needs? Across the U.S., people are flocking to stores and online t...
It’s that time of year when folks are thinking about spring and adding some new chickens t...
The Stable Workhorse If you’ve recently made the transition from city to country, chances ...
Lor rem ex expla ipsus. Ihit, cusantio. Tur? Os molorrum que eate volum faccum et re prend...
There is something special about preparing a meal with produce from your own backyard. Eve...
An hour away from the chaos of our nation’s capital, in Virginia’s rolling hills, lies 10....
It’s been said that chickens are the “gateway drug” to homesteading. A small flock of chic...
When you install a fence, you worry. What if the wire stretches? Did I use the correct pos...
Raising Backyard Meat Birds part 2 Four more weeks have passed, and the birds have been pr...
Many of us who love horses grew up watching Disney movies or Mr. Ed, and reading children’...
I can remember about nine or ten years ago, somewhere between 2008 and 2009 when the econo...
Hee-haw! This unmistakable—and sometimes very loud—braying sound can only come from one of...
For many, it’s more than a gender difference Across all disciplines in the equine world, t...
With warmer weather, people often spend more time on summer trips with family. These trips...
If you are one of the thousands of people who started a backyard flock this year, you're i...
My sister has enlisted my help on a project today, and it's a new one for me: she's trimmi...
Methods to help your chickens through sweltering summer heat I remember sitting on my pare...
Maximize your sales potential at summer farmers markets Summer is well at hand and that sh...
As a child growing up in central Virginia, I took many trips to Colonial Williamsburg, the...
Cover crops may be farm’s most under-appreciated farming tool. They are planted to slow er...
Avian intestinal coccidiosis is a common protozoal gastrointestinal (GI) disease that prim...
What is it about golf that keeps people returning season after season? On any given golf c...
“Why can’t you just pick up that foot?” is one of the most oft-heard refrains in boarding ...
Raising chickens continues to grow in popularity as suburban homeowners and acreage owners...
Spring is approaching, and if you are planning on starting a new flock with baby chicks, y...
When I was young, a neighbor showed me how to be a good neighbor. Among his lessons: When ...
It’s an ancient and ongoing responsibility to protect our livestock from the dangers of be...
While there are some important aspects of brooding to ensure a healthy chick, setting up a...
This is the time of year when farms, regardless of size, find the operator with time on hi...
If you’re looking to raise heritage cattle and you prefer a breed with a distinctive appea...
Farming is never-ending for many of us. Every day there is something that can be done. On ...
As spring approaches, thousands of people will be ordering baby chicks online. Some will b...
American farmers have long relied on a few standard options when raising poultry: chickens...
Horse owners look at our animals’ medical issues a little differently than owners of cats ...
We’ve all seen them on television: Gorgeous aerial photos of a field being harvested, just...
Keep boredom away this winter I’ve found the biggest problem with gray, rainy weather or a...
Do you remember the day of the root cellar? A root cellar is a structure, usually undergro...
As many local hay farmers are preparing to do their final cutting or are getting their las...
It’s one of life’s inevitabilities. Unless you already use horses for ranching or your own...
Summer is upon us, and if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times, “Heat is far mo...
If you stop by your local county fair or an American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) ra...
A well-managed pasture is both productive and sustainable. Important decisions such as liv...
In the height of summer, you and your horse are sweating more than ever, whether you’re ou...
It’s a fact of horsemanship: If you have a horse, you have lots of manure. No one likes t...
