When he was a child, Walker Miller would pick berries and bring them to his mother, who baked “the best blueberry pie you ever ate,” he recalls. Today, Miller, 66, a retired Clemson University plant ...

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 ...

An incredible barn-style home—built using architectural elements from the reclaimed wood of New York City water tanks as well as original Boston cobblestones—has hit the market for $12.5 million. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more people are practicing farming because they enjoy the outdoors, animals and the fruits of their labor as opposed to farming as a primary source of income. Even though “hobby farming” can ...

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, ...