Hobby Farms - March - April 2025

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Coop Considerations: Keep these 20 things in mind when designing a home for your chickens. by Heather Lusk.
Tracking Digestion: Keeping your flock internally healthy starts with what the chickens are or are not eating. by Sheri McGregor.
French Intensive Gardening: This permaculture system relies on soil improvement, raised beds and more. by Leah Smith.

FORAGE FOR FOWL

Consider these three cool-season forages as you plant your pasture with free-range poultry in mind.

2 mins

from my garden

Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers

6 mins

Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers

You don’t have to have a lot of garden space or an especially long growing season to succeed with hot peppers.

6 mins

Soil Testing

Whether you are new to farming altogether or you are leasing your farmland to a producer who is unfamiliar with the practice, becoming knowledgeable about the acts of soil testing and them applying recommended soil amendments based on soil test results provides tremendous advantages to the soil, plants, and your pocketbook.

7 mins

20 COOP CONSIDERATIONS

Keep these 20 things in mind when designing a home for your chickens.

7 mins

Laying AN EGG

Maintaining correct male-to-female ratios and keeping flocks of younger breeding fowl will help ensure higher fertility and hatching rates.

7 mins

Making Bucks from Clucks

These five reasons might be why you're losing money on your chickens.

7 mins

French Intensive Gardening

This permaculture system relies on soil improvement, raised beds, close spacing, companion planting, succession planting and crop rotation. Oui, oui!

8 mins

Seed-Starting Soil Temps

Don't miss out on growing time by focusing only on the air temperature.

4 mins

Get LOW in Spring

There comes a time when we all just want to start planting in our gardens again, and a low tunnel provides an earlier-is-better option.

3 mins

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Hobby Farms Magazine Description:

Whether for sustainability or profitability, Hobby Farms celebrates the challenges and accomplishments of creating and maintaining a successful low-acreage farm, garden or orchard.
Hobby Farms magazine helps readers realize their farming goals with expert articles on subjects such as livestock husbandry, sustainable agriculture, equipment purchasing, irrigation, pest control, new technologies, and more. Hobby Farms also addresses core information for newcomers and advanced how-to information for seasoned farmers.
With well-executed articles and photos, Hobby Farms embraces the growing population segment returning to farm life in search of self-sustainability.