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It's an incredible spectacle to see as many as 20,000 birds flying low overhead in a kind of an avian safari experience. The Simple Pleasures Lili DeBarbeiri Here at Sojourner's Homestead, simplicity reigns.

This farming couple is giving back by helping grow new farmers. These are not the most fun jobs on the farm, and we have to discipline ourselves to pay attention. Grow incrementally, leverage your successes and minimize impact from your mistakes.

A learner's paradise, the farm's ongoing classes include goat and chicken husbandry, cheesemaking and the new three-day yoga workshops. The Mountain Goat Lodge sits on 20 acres of high-mountain desert between the historic towns Poncha Springs and Salida,...

Guidestone's plan is to allow the schoolchildren to adopt and to sponsor rare breeds of sheep, goats, horses, cows and pigs. What seemed to be a sad ending was actually the bright beginning of a new farming venture in Buena Vista—embracing even bigger...

There are numerous sites in the Internet with recipes for the beginner. Despite the hurdles she's faced with the unique Southwestern climate, she's found success in her endeavors and passes along this advice to other budding goat dairies: Check with your...

The profession is full of challenges and your love for what you do will carry you through the hard times, as long as your passion is coupled with sound business planning. Not only are we on a small, relatively remote island, we are in an area of the island...

Their Cycle Farm , in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota, is a small, diversified mixed vegetable farm. We're still working on solving the time-management challenges, but increasingly we're doing better at managing the stresses they cause.

Firsthand Advice The best advice I could give would be to spend time in the pastures with your animals. When Valerie Samutin and her husband, George, decided to recreate their wedding feast—lamb marinated in pomegranate juice, garlic and herbs, roasted...

Stop by for one of their on-farm tours or workshops , and while you're in the area check out these other great activities. As a Certified Naturally Grown farm that eschews chemical fertilizers for sustainable soil amendments like bat guano, it produces...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission has an easily accessible website helping farmers to get a handle on rights and responsibilities. I suggest the state of the producer. (Always consider whether you need the advice of an attorney to assist you, and...

This is also the spot of a great swimming hole on the Alsea River. Garden beds that the second owners planted with berry bushes, kiwi, figs, quince, Italian plums, and many perennials and shrubs in still encircle the house.

Farm sounds and smells permeate the air. Other families soon followed and built their own homesteads on different parcels of the original farm. Cotton and alfalfa fields and mountain vistas surround the property.

“There are local producers who need the business and support in every state, including Alaska. He has no regrets, though. “There is absolutely no reason to ship halfway across the country,” Schwennesen says.

On the business side, bureaucratic red tape and paperwork grow just as quickly and constantly. Specialty: Year-round organic vegetable and pastured-egg CSA; specialty greens If sunny California seems like the perfect backdrop for growing a gastronomic...

The open space has a variety of wildlife, active farming, fellow outdoor enthusiasts and links to acequia irrigation routes. Use It as Medicine Lavender can be a mainstay of your medicine cabinet , too.

Soil is simply the holder of the nutrients, a place where the plant roots traditionally live and a base of support for the plant structure. By 2007, they were growing and selling lettuce to a few customers in Winnipeg and, from there, the business took...

The town works hard to promote the area as an ideal place for a weekend getaway or a longer vacation, which is a boon for the farm, which specializes in pure Vermont maple syrup. If you want to open up your farm to visitors during maple season, which...

Rita Hills AVA, renowned for exceptional Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. This is no resort. Soaking almonds increases the amount of nutrients and vitamins your body absorbs from the food, making it a simple and effective way to improve this healthy nut.

You know how the rest of the story goes: The pair fell in love with livestock management, and their internship turned into full-time positions. Leasing land is a way to drastically cut your operating costs down on a farm.

It melts beautifully on pizza, and the ricotta makes amazing pasta dishes.” As demand for Ramini's trademark mozzarella increases, Audrey is looking into ways to diversify, sourcing butter-making equipment and researching the possibility of introducing...

An annual garlic planting event in October allows visitors to spend the day on the farm, working side by side with farmers. Participants learn about a wide range of topics: gardening, water harvesting, animal husbandry, canning, solar and alternative...

The Parkers consider the development of online sales, successful grassroots marketing and product diversification some of their biggest successes to date. Specialty: Mandarin oranges and value-added products Welty Mandarins , a mandarin-orange orchard...

Meanwhile, Wendy started a small grocery store in a low-income community outside of Durham, North Carolina. “[Sex links] are a cross between Rhode Island Red roosters and Delaware hens [for red] or Barred Rocks [for black],” Wendy says.

Guests and the community are welcome to go out into the sculpture garden, stroll and enjoy as a kind of park. The ranch's most unique feature, though, is its outdoor art installations along winding pathways that stretch out into the high-desert ecosystem.

Over the years, the ranch's cheeses and other products have won many national awards. “Find some friends who know what they're doing and give them a hand someday,” David says. “Goats seemed like the perfect animals for both our objectives and our...

If your next farm trip leads you to Oregon, consider staying in one of these bed-and-breakfasts to get the full experience. Abbey Road B & B Carlton 503-852-6278 Barking Mad Farm Enterprise 541-26-0360 Bella Vista Hood River 541-386-1545 Clear Creek Inn...

We are moving on from the laying hens and figured someone else could get some great use out of it. Still works like the day we bought it The only thing that's missing is the lid for the power switches.