Agriculture & Farming

Follow these instructions and you'll know all you need to know to get started raising these amazing egg-layers

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.

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?

Five chickens breeds that are weird-looking, interesting, uncommon and downright different.

American farmers got soybeans from China originally, but now soybeans raised in the USA are being sent to China in spectacular volumes

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!

Oft ignored, sometimes maligned, the humble leghorn is still the queen of the nesting box.

This article discusses how cottonseeds are used in our products and daily life.

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.

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.

Permaculture communities work with nature, not against it.

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...

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. Integrated pest management uses a variety of techniques to control pests.

My top five picks for egg-laying chicken breeds.

Support the Future of food production.

Corn saved the Pilgrims and has since grown into a huge industry.