I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...

A hobby farm can provide its owner with hours of enjoyment tending to livestock and harvesting crops. The farm can also create hours of frustration when tax season comes around and it is time to file ...

About an hour before the start of a spring storm, Dominique Salamone surveyed her three-quarter-acre Northridge yard and commenced an impromptu master class in suburban chicken raising. “You have to ...

With the increasing number of people entering the food movement and selling produce and craft foods, determining if one qualifies as a farm is important to understand. The term “farm” includes stock, ...

During the work week, Rick and Patti Dougherty live in St. Paul and commute to demanding jobs. But on weekends, they escape to their hobby farm on 40 acres in Ellsworth, Wis.Patti collects eggs from ...

Joe and Tania Kirby are "eco-preneurs" who turned their love of the bush into a home and hobby farm that provides $90,000 a year income and sanctuary to endangered animals and flora. The couple, who ...

Clifford Milton Leonard had grand plans when he built an exquisite hobby farm on 150 acres of Lake County farmland in the mid-1920s, but as a working dairy, his dream farm failed after only a few ...

Escape the city and embrace peaceful rural living at this Goornong property with ample appeal. It's an immaculate family home ...

It happened slowly. Mary Carrion always loved knitting so she learned how to spin yarn. She liked the spinning so she bought a couple of sheep. Then, she added ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — On a hobby farm between St. Cloud and Cold Spring, around 500 lilac bushes are in bloom. Fortunately, those Memorial Day storms left them relatively unharmed, still, the annual ...