For months, Jim Huff has been seeing what one of the worst droughts of his 65 years has inflicted on farm and ranch lands in Crawford County. On an especially hot afternoon, an odor led him to proof that it has been just as deadly on Kansas’ wildlife. The rancher had just entered a pasture [...]
A Wing and a Prayer farm in Tay Township is one of the few places where you can buy free-range eggs that are from grass-pastured heritage hens. “The nutrients are higher and the cholesterol is lower,” than regular mass -farmed white eggs, Shelly van Heyningen said. “Free-range eggs have higher omega 3 and lower omega [...]
Almost ten years ago my husband and I, along with our two children ages 1 and 3, purchased 11 acres in central Maine with the intention of escaping in-town living and growing more of our own food. I was a stay-at-home mother blessed with the occasional but fulfilling catering stints to break the monotony of [...]
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Here are a few chicken coop ideas you can use for your own backyard chickens or small commercial flock. We’ve also included chicken coop plans that we have researched, that you can buy to build your own coop. Just released – get my new free report: Raising chickens, pigs on pasture, and an organic market [...]
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A sheep meeting with a difference takes place at 8pm on Thursday, July 12, at the Bloomfield House Hotel near Mullingar. The meeting has been arranged by local sheep farmer and IFA member Eunan Bannon who is spearheading a drive to rid sheep flocks of lameness. Ten years ago, Eunan eliminated foot-rot lameness from his [...]
Which came first: the chicken, or the city code? The growing popularity of backyard chicken coops in Austin neighborhoods has prompted the City of Austin to release guidelines helping urban chicken owners from running afoul of the law. It’s a reminder to chicken keepers of city codes restricting where and how owners can plant their coops. [...]
Chris Copley with his pasture-raised bounty at Chico’s Saturday farmers’ market. PHOTO BY MATT SIRACUSA Farmer Chris Copley sells his chicken eggs as “pasture-raised”—and he isn’t trying to fool anyone. The Corning-based farmer and owner of Chris’ Egg Farm keeps a flock of 3,000 laying hens on his 11.5 acres. The birds roam free by day, [...]
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The Bassett family built a nice home for their chickens and they want everybody to see it. Their light blue chicken coop, complete with a large observation window, will be one of the coops featured in the third annual Whidbey Island Coop Tour, which is sponsored by the Rock’n Doodle 4-H Poultry Club. Todd Bassett [...]
Everyone knows how passionate I am about gardening and growing-your-own — but I am equally as passionate about keeping backyard hens. Growing up, I don’t think – no, I know – my parents never even considered raising chickens; therefore, everything I’ve learned about them has come from my own research and trial and error. Backyard hens have been [...]
Call a bubbly wine made in California “champagne,” and you’re asking for legal trouble from the captains of the global wine industry. And if you call a conventionally grown potato “organic,” the enforcement branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be at your door as soon as it unearths the fraud. But raise a [...]
