My Garden Goals Are on Track Rachael Dupree The weather this year, between bipolar temperatures and persistent precipitation, has made gardening difficult. If we get to the point in the next 40 years where we grow all the produce and maybe some of the...
“… Everything we do is for the purpose of properly representing our farmers' hard work, deep knowledge and high-quality animals. We never forget that without them, we'd be just another bunch of jerks selling pork chops.” The lack of goat-focused...
This book takes a look at an Asian style of composting that allows you to convert even more food waste to black gold. There's also an excellent chapter on using the end result in your garden that will appeal to growers of all garden sizes.
The price of food—rice, bread, cheese, lentils or anything else you don't grow yourself—has to be taken into account. Both parties need privacy and time apart. A lot of projects to do doesn't necessarily give you enough reason to invite an apprentice...
Ask for help before you need it. So I completely understood what she meant when she said, “We thought we'd talked about everything when we made this decision. But somehow we just never discussed what we'd do if one of us got hurt.” Danger Ahead Farming...
Despite the lack of teachers, students still demonstrated a substantial interest in these fields, with veterinary medicine appearing as one of the top choices on a survey of students' career goals.
Farming will, though, and soon—I have no doubt about that. If you want to be a farmer, you've got to put in the time to learn your craft—only then will you find true success. Elenarts/iStock/Thinkstock Perhaps this blinding eagerness is generational.
Rachael Dupree Days are going to get longer, the bugs are going to get buggier and the air is going to get muggier, but for now, we're enjoying the seasonal revival of color and using this time to ease back into the work and way of life that brought us...
The brown landscape is now turning lush and vibrant, and as I wait for my plant babies in the sunroom to mature and chip away at getting my garden plot into workable order, there's still space to soak in the beauty that's unfolding all around.
All I have to do is pop open the back every few days, stir the fresh poop into the bedding material (I use pine shavings), toss a few more handfuls of shavings on top to freshen things up, and boom, you're done.
He is the former director of the Leopold Center and has held numerous appointments, including to the USDA National Organic Standards Board and the National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, operated by the Johns Hopkins School of Public...
In 2013, California passed the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones Act to increase the amount of vacant and private land used for urban agriculture by offering reductions in property taxes and to expand its agricultural reach even further.
With all the vetch and dock and other rogue plants, our soil should be pretty darn nutritious afterwards. One of the hardest things about moving , especially for a gardener, is that you have to start all over again from scratch to get things growing your...
Read Cherie Langlois' thoughts on global warming. Reduce, reuse, recycle – more! Grow more of our own food organically. Hang the laundry out to dry more often. Switch over to fluorescent light bulbs.
Plan to profit. Start with what you can handle in terms of finances and labor. Farming can be challenging, and it's easy to lose sight of the reasons you got into it in the first place.
Some of the items that have “Dump Day” designation written all over them include old cans of paint, a mountain of plastic planters, scrap netting, and piles of odds-n-ends wood pieces that we've had a hard time even giving away .
Five years later, people wouldn't believe what a wreck the house had been. Eventually, I outwitted the otter. To solve the problem, I purchased a big live trap and put in a $30 slab of fresh fish.
Understand that it isn't a constant ‘rosy' picture. If you want chickens , become skilled and knowledgeable about them before adding goats. “When looking to buy land, make total absolution there aren't deed restrictions for that property that will...
“In extreme cases, travel time is more than 75 minutes, one way,” Williams says. Because these factors persist after a cancer diagnosis, Williams reports that many rural patients also have fewer treatment options and poorer prognoses than their urban...
For starters, we finally tied the knot last week, which was a beautiful time of celebration with our friends and family, and included, of course, good food and farm-raised flowers.
It's almost time to move, but not yet. With more than half of the year thus far in rain, take your best guess at the state of our soil. This short season before the growing season—the almost not yet of spring—can seem like an eternity.
Heck, we might blow right past 9 billion. Sound idealistic? According to the FAO, 70 percent of the world's population will be urban in 2050, compared to 49 percent today. Perhaps the movement toward biointensive farming methods—currently being revived...
The folding technique was nice because I could set a timer to give it four folds every half hour, and then spend the time in between with my baby. I've also been hanging on to a cracker recipe that I'll try when I can give it a full day's attention.
I still approach with caution, but I think they sense my good intent and my unswatty attitude. Their proximity to our deck and hot tub was, well, proximate . But there are some hives I wouldn't go near without a suit.
Better yet, churn a bunch of good compost into your soil and the pH should adjust naturally. I'm not saying this is perfect, but I can get my head around it and that's a great place to start.
I hate that the onus is on the customer now. Sure, some conventional farmers are switching over to organic practices, but others are just adjusting to the times. Not too long after the story I started this piece with, a separate customer asked that same...
Farming today incorporates many specialties to live a comfortable living. They also raise a wide variety of plant breeds which adds to the genetic diversity of our nation's food supply.
