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After several years of pestering my wife to get backyard chickens, she finally relented this past fall. I made all the traditional arguments

23/02/2018

The Vegetable Farm Manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, turning your garden into a four-season farm is easier than you think.

26/12/2017

Researchers compared the number of parasites found on commercial chicken flocks with those found on backyard flocks. But which chicken was the itchiest?

02/11/2017

Here’s something petroleum companies don’t want you to know: when things decompose, like the half rotten head of lettuce in the back of your refrigerator, fuel

26/07/2018

Passive surveillance project uncovered presence of certain worrisome pathogens in backyard raises concerns for poultry health specialists.

09/10/2019

Poultry owners, whatever their size, should be able to house birds well no matter the circumstances. Poultry owners big and small in the U.K

13/01/2017

Although hens typically prefer to lay eggs in nests, it is not unusual for some eggs to be laid on the floor of the hen house or on the ground.

08/06/2018

The large-scale hatcheries that supply fingerlings for recreational fishing in rivers and lakes may not be of much help either.

08/09/2017

Fish farming has a poor reputation: antibiotic-dependent, polluting, and reliant on industrially produced corn and soybeans to fatten the fish

08/09/2017

Lemongrass can be grown in backyards, pots, on terrace as this works as an excellent insect repellent.

09/06/2017