Raising Animals
Building a Predator Proof Coop Frame by Hand
The coop I bought secondhand for my first six hens had a corner joint that gapped just wide enough for a raccoon's paw by its...
Livestock and pasture writer, page 7 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.
Raising Animals
The coop I bought secondhand for my first six hens had a corner joint that gapped just wide enough for a raccoon's paw by its...
Raising Animals
A visiting cousin who works in an office and trains at a gym three times a week spent one afternoon helping me move hay bales...
Raising Animals
An older shepherd I used to work alongside called a clean lambing season pure luck, the kind of year the flock happened to...
Crop Protection
A grower two farms over from mine told me once that he had stopped walking his fields daily because nothing ever changed day to...
Crop Protection
By the time I could put a name to the blight moving through my tomato rows three years ago, it had already jumped two beds...
Raising Animals
The first bird I lost was not taken at night, despite every warning I had read about foxes and raccoons prowling after dark.