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LIMBER TIMBER
You won't have to lumber over that brush pile with these tips.
STORAGE Guide
Store these fruits and vegetables well past fall into late winter; then your early spring garden can take over.
STORING YOUR Harvest
Root cellaring can extend your harvest and provide a rainbow of fresh colors and flavors to your kitchen throughout the winter.
MEANT ΤΟ FERMENT
This guide will have you perfectly fermenting every time.
Chicken HARVEST
Process your own birds with this helpful guide.
PROJECT FARM
Build a lean-to greenhouse onto an existing structure to add to your growing space.
Big-Picture Pest Management
Insecticides have historically been among the first tools we’ve reached for to save crops from insect damage, but integrated pest management experts stress that these should be considered only as a last line of defense. Fortunately, now more effective ways exist to wrangle insect pests and minimize the damage they can do.
Processing a Slaughter Hog
Butchering hogs can be a family event that teaches essential skills while also making the process less stressful for the animal.
Free Feed
Pumpkins are safe for livestock and are readily consumed. Here are some ways to turn leftover pumpkins into a nutritious feedstuff on your farm.
LAMBS, AMERICAN STYLE
The Katahdin is a native sheep breed that requires only little maintenance and is easy to care for.
Is Metal Ever Trash?
Our neighbor told my wife and me how she stopped her fourth-grader as she was pulling a bottle cap out of their kitchen trash can, saying, “Honey, put that back.
When it RAINS...
Today's weather can be bust or boom, and bioswales and rain gardens help control the overflow during boom times.
The Queen of Topiary
Linda Vater talks us through the transition from self-taught hobby gardening to becoming a national gardening guru.
GOAT HOOF TRIM
Sooner or later, you'll need to trim your goats' hooves.
A Perfect PORKER
The woolly, low-maintenance Mangalitsa pig provides succulent meat for a small farm.
THE GREAT CATTLE DEBATE
Grain-fed versus grass-fed - is one better than the other?
Charge Tools with Solar
Ongoing improvements to batteries O have helped increasing numbers of gardeners to cut the cord- and the need for gasoline - for their string trimmers, edgers, lawn mowers and other gadgets.
Equipment Fires
About three years ago, the day before the predicted first frost of the season, Bledsoe County farmer and retired agriculture teacher Bobby Loyd was baling late-fall hay with plans to wrap it for silage.
Homegrown Fungi
Tony Shields has been fascinated with mushrooms for as long as he can remember
Zero-Turn Mowers
If you're coming from lawn and garden tractors, you might not immediately recognize a zero-turn mower as a member of the mowing family
Insectary Strips
In addition to offering food sources to honeybees and native pollinators, insectary strips can provide your homestead with noninsect-derived benefits
Beyond Firewood
I knew the silver maple tree in my backyard was in pretty rotten shape, but hearing the decades-old tree fall was still a shock
POWER YOUR SOIL WITH Probiotics
HEALTHIER SOIL MAKES FOR HEALTHIER PLANTS AND PEOPLE
Sheep & Goats
There are obvious benefits to raising sheep and goats. Meat is likely the first that comes to mind
BEST BEEF & PERFECT PORK
THESE BREEDS THRIVE ON SMALL-SCALE HOBBY FARMS
OPEN THE HATCH
PURCHASING YOUR SPRING CHICKS FROM A HATCHERY IS MORE THAN JUST CLICK AND WAIT
Small Flock Poultry
Predator Protection
Grass-Fed Meat
The fastest way to increase the carbon content of a degraded soil is to establish a perennial grassland and graze it with ruminant animals in a proper manner
Holey Cow!
Bovines have an amazing ability to turn relatively undigestable grass, hay and other roughage into nutrients and energy
GOAT MILK Soap
This recipe for goat milk soap will leave your skin feeling soft and luxurious