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I mean, yes, that. It's folksy angry chick music, so I don't blame you if the obscure tune didn't make your playlist. It's quirky, but it got me through the winter with my eye on the prize.

Myles paints himself and his two co-owners, Ben Turley and Brent Young, in a hilarious self-deprecating light, peppering stories of their misadventures and successes throughout the book in recipe headnotes and asides.

This closed system has a number of benefits, including a smell-free composting process, the ability to compost all food waste (even meat and dairy, which would normally attract flies and rodents to a traditional compost pile), no loss of nutrients, enhanced...

Where Will They Hang Out? The reasons for hiring an apprentice are many: Perhaps this farmer doesn't have the money to pay for an employee quite yet, or is already paying one and can't afford another.

“Are you sure you want to take this on?” I asked. One balmy summer morning a couple of years back, my wife and I did morning chores by the light of daybreak. So I completely understood what she meant when she said, “We thought we'd talked about...

But what about a soil-testing kit, a stethoscope and a sturdy pair of rubber boots? Dr. James Martin, a lifelong friend of Eastside Tech's principal, Joe Norman, wanted to “put together a program where students could work with a veterinarian ,” Tracy...

Born in 1982, I'm a Gen X/Millennial cusper, and I find that many people my age go down a similar path. One might blame this eagerness on social media, where we often think of ourselves as “brands” that need to be promoted.

And there's about a week and a half of a lag time in the onset of spring activity , which means while the cherry blossoms were flowering in town, we were still waiting for the last dreary days of winter to come to a close.

I thought it odd that they'd be making such audible flapping noises, though the acoustics of our surroundings tend to play tricks on your ears. Even though we live in wild-turkey country—a distillery making spirits that bear the name sits just miles...

After studying a whole bunch of designs, I created my own, based around the following rule: No bending over. That's another thing: My coop doesn't stink. Oh sure, I like to start a lot of projects, but when it comes time to actually maintain those projects...

The sustainable agriculture leader shares his views on the changing food system. He is the former director of the Leopold Center and has held numerous appointments, including to the USDA National Organic Standards Board and the National Commission on...

New York From small-scale urban farms in The Big Apple to rolling pasturelands upstate, New York is a popular place for new farmers to get their start. With 245 farmers' markets and CSAs serving a population of 626,000, Vermont has the top ranking for...

Potatoes were in the ground in March (like I said, a mild spring), and I actually made time to plant other root crops. With all the vetch and dock and other rogue plants, our soil should be pretty darn nutritious afterwards.

I'm picturing the whole lot of us succumbing to heat stroke, vultures circling like in those old westerns. About a week ago, however, we experienced some record-breaking July heat here in Western Washington, with temperatures soaring into the upper 90s...

“If you live in an area that demands beans, corn and tomatoes, don't grow rows and rows of Swiss chard (a hard lesson learned!) without having some kind of idea what the demand is,” Howard says.

Some of the items we inherited have been extremely useful: a tool bench full of helpful odds and ends, trellising materials, beekeeping equipment , drip irrigation lines, a yard cart.

Pretty good, it turned out. What joy I felt when my crops started showing up on the family dinner table. As a couple starts their first farm later in life they learn to live with wild pond creatures.

I mean, really?” —Betty Wilmott “RESEARCH anything that you are considering bringing on your farm. Sometimes it is physically and emotionally difficult to keep going. Understand that it isn't a constant ‘rosy' picture.

In rural areas, where it might not be cost-effective to build a permanent, free-standing medical facility, Williams suggests offering mobile screening services. As a woman's travel time to a screening center increases, so does her likelihood of being...

Among all the haste of last-minute wedding prep and having geothermal technicians out to the house, it occurred to me that perhaps the smell could actually be coming from the propane tank.

Derby Day, the first Saturday in May, is the traditional day around these parts to start putting plants in the ground. Tags The Accidental Farmer This short season before the growing season—the almost not yet of spring—can seem like an eternity.

If agricultural trends continue as they have, farming in the mid-century will look quite a bit different. Heck, we might blow right past 9 billion. We may very well look back on the 20th century as the era of meat, and the 21st as the rise of the vegetable-centric...

Sourdough Failures & Ambitions While I'm happy to say I've had some good sourdough successes so far, this experience hasn't been without its failures. The weather here at the farm has been quite nurturing to me as I try to put into practice my word of...

There are heaps of stories about beekeepers approaching their hive without protection and escaping unscathed, while their unfortunate friend standing several feet away get stung to bits.

I wander around muttering to myself and scaring the pets and kids. A super-simple understanding of all things N-P-K helps beginning farmers like me get started. Mostly, plants do OK with potassium, it's the nitrogen and phosphorous you have to watch.

But the unfinished part of the sentence the customer didn't get to hear was “Well, we're not certified, but there is also no way we could be.” This particular farm was conventional—meaning they used chemicals—but the vendor's response implied...

We need major change if we are going to stay vital over the next 20 to 40 years and beyond.Farm-to-table needs to become even cooler before we can start worrying about what happens when it isn't anymore.