Crop Protection
Squash Vine Borer Prevention That Works on a Small Farm
A zucchini plant can look perfect at breakfast and lie flat by mid afternoon, leaves wilted as if nobody had watered it in a...
Livestock and pasture writer, page 2 of 8
Mabel grew up on her family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on her own few acres. She writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.
Crop Protection
A zucchini plant can look perfect at breakfast and lie flat by mid afternoon, leaves wilted as if nobody had watered it in a...
Crop Protection
The first year we grew sweet corn on the lower field, deer took about a third of it in four nights.
Growing Food
One pound of seed garlic holds roughly 40 to 50 cloves.
Games
Plant the same high-value crop in the same plot every season in a farming game and, in the better ones, the yield quietly drops...
Raising Animals
Every autumn, new chicken keepers reach for a heat lamp, picturing their flock shivering through the cold, and that single well...
Games
Running a roadside egg stand felt oddly familiar the first week, and it took me a bit to place why.