How you approach the horse with the lead rope sets the tone for the rest of the day. Read on to learn more about safe practices and types of lead ropes.
How to Put a Lead Rope on a Horse
Raising animals for the purpose of human consumption appears to be something of a moral and ethical dilemma, and here's why: Animals including cattle, sheep, chickens, hogs, geese, ducks, goats, and all others are living, thinking, feeling beings...
Ethical Concerns Regarding Raising Livestock Animals for Food
If you want to raise your own high-quality eggs and save money, read on to find out what to grow for feed and forage and how to manage your foraging areas.
Growing Your Own Chicken Feed
Raising geese is a lot easier than you may think. The effort is well worth it especially if you use the natural tendencies of the geese to benefit you. Read on to learn about weeder geese, pet geese and security alarm geese!
How to Raise and Care for Geese
Alpaca and llama fibers are of the finest quality. Sheep wool tops today's animal fiber industry. So, what's different about the fleece of these herding animals?
Alpaca Fiber, Llama Fiber, Sheep Fiber or Wool, How Are They Different?
Humans use cow dung as a fertilizer, a fuel, a building material, and an insect repellent. It's also used to produce a biogas and paper and to play games. Other organisms use the dung as well.
The Many Uses of Cow Dung: A Natural and Renewable Resource
Biological pest control has important advantages compared to chemical pest control, such as being safer for humans and the environment. It also has some disadvantages.
Biological vs. Chemical Pest Control: Benefits and Disadvantages
Corn saved the Pilgrims and has since grown into a huge industry.
400 Years After the Pilgrims, Corn Is More in Demand Than Ever
Oft ignored, sometimes maligned, the humble leghorn is still the queen of the nesting box.
Leghorns: The Unsung Heroes of the Henhouse
This article discusses how cottonseeds are used in our products and daily life.
The Many Ways We Use Cottonseeds
Follow these instructions and you'll know all you need to know to get started raising these amazing egg-layers
How to Raise Chickens in an Urban Environment
American farmers got soybeans from China originally, but now soybeans raised in the USA are being sent to China in spectacular volumes
Soybeans Return to China
Support the Future of food production.
Why Large-Scale Farming Isn't Practical
Wool fiber is used to make all kinds of clothes, bedding and home insulation. It’s a natural product that is renewable and recyclable unlike its synthetic rivals. Wool is a wonder fabric that can keep you warm in winter and cool in summer.
Advantages of Using Natural Wool Fiber From Sheep, Goats, Rabbits and Yak
Five chickens breeds that are weird-looking, interesting, uncommon and downright different.
Five Weird and Uncommon Chicken Breeds
Permaculture communities work with nature, not against it.
What It's Like to Live in a Permaculture Community