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As a vegetable gardener, you know that the quality of your soil can make or break your harvest. Vegetables need loose, light, fertile ground that holds water well without becoming sodden. Few gardeners are blessed with this soil, known as ...

I’m fortunate to call the windswept prairie of the Great Plains my home. If you get out of farm country, it’s just grass as far as you can see. In fact, there are still places nearly unchanged since pioneers first ...

Winter is coming, and for those of us who live in snowy climates the task of cleaning our barns and chicken coops is about to get more complicated. One solution is simply to stop cleaning out over the winter and ...

When the winter turns to spring on the calendar, many of us with a green thumb start getting the itch to plant vegetables. Starting seeds indoors can tide us over for a while, but what we are really anticipating is ...

When we think about gardens that supply food for the family, we most often think of vegetables. But what about flowers? Flowers, of course, are not commonly considered “edible,” but they actually can make delightful dishes and are packed full ...

A federal judge has decreed that manure is pollution and a danger to public health in a ruling that could make it easy to sue farmers and others that use natural fertilizer. “This is the first case that would define ...

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have sown, grown and harvested crops with nothing more than hard work and local resources. But in the 1950s, that began to change. New hybrid plants were introduced, along with synthetic fertilizers ...

You may think that the only good that horses can bring to a sustainable farm is to fill up a pasture and “look pretty,” but in actuality, equine can serve a very practical role on any homestead. Putting equine to ...

Could proposed rules by the FDA end up shutting down organic farms nationwide if they don’t abandon their all-natural practices? That’s what the head of an organization that supports independent family farms believes, and it’s the subject of this week’s ...

Alternative energy sources are extremely important, particularly if they are versatile. Even people who aren’t off grid should have a backup source in which they can rely in case of power outages or other emergencies. One source to consider: biogas. ...