Sask Farmer

I Get to Do It With My Farm ily Yes, I went there with a cheesy pun. It was three days of hard work in 90-degree heat—much much too hot for mid-May—but the garden season has officially begun.

Myles' conversational style is immediately engaging, and you'll likely find yourself charmed by his stories and the cast of The Meat Hook characters right off the bat. No sense in pussyfooting around.

“Each form of composting has its appropriate place and time, but there are also times where one form or another may be problematic given the user and their specific situation,” he writes in the book's introduction.

If your farm operation is growing, a farm apprentice might be able to help lighten the load, but ask yourself these questions first. It isn't until later in the season, when that person has become accustomed to the routine, that his or her value will...

One balmy summer morning a couple of years back, my wife and I did morning chores by the light of daybreak. And after that, convince yourself that you will ask for help if you need it—farm folks are by definition self-reliant, and many are loathe to...

Weaving sustainability throughout the curriculum is one example of Locust Trace's integrative, interdisciplinary approach to agricultural education. “We were able to show him that it was so much more than that.” Tags agriculture career , high school...

Farming doesn't have the Mind of a Chef or the Chef's Table documentaries; the Rachel Rays or Guy Fieris that make it look so fun and so fabulous. I used to know a lot more about farming than I do now.

The land we live on can be particularly brutal for people like us who haven't been sensitized to its unique ways. After a long winter's rest, spring farm work is beckoning. Even though over half of our farm is woodlands, one of our major chores is mowing,...

The trail leading back to home began to show spots of color: yellow and orange and white daffodils popping up in tufts along hillside slopes, pink tulips softly blossoming around the house, and the redbud trees bearing their first signs of color.

Cyn Cady I built the henhouse and run myself, with some help from the Girl Kid, and I admit, it's a bit … er … funky looking. That's another thing: My coop doesn't stink. I just lift the litter board and rake the composted stuff into the wheelbarrow...

How are resilience and sustainability related, and what role do small-scale farmers play in building resilient and sustainable food and farming systems? HF: The theme of resilience runs through much of your writing.

New Mexico In the Land of Enchantment, farmland averages just $550 per acre, according to the 2013 USDA Land Values Report , making it the least-expensive farmland in the nation. However, programs are in place to help new farmers willing to take on the...

Potatoes were in the ground in March (like I said, a mild spring), and I actually made time to plant other root crops. I've been taking a few hours out of my week to work away at the terraced garden beside the house, because I'm pretty sure we were growing...

Take them or leave them. Hang the laundry out to dry more often. Switch over to fluorescent light bulbs. I've seen it in action: hummingbirds returning earlier each year, glaciers melting, cloudless Costa Rican cloud forest and more.

There are myriad rules governing the sales of farm products. “Put it on paper, but don't fret all the details (unless you want to talk yourself out of it). The good news is that you aren't going to be a beginning farmer forever.

Until gardening conditions work in our favor, spring cleaning is the name of the game. You also get the joy (or burden) of receiving all the old tools, equipment and “stuff we might use someday” that the former owners couldn't take with them.

To solve the problem, I purchased a big live trap and put in a $30 slab of fresh fish. Five years later, people wouldn't believe what a wreck the house had been. My parents were quietly reading in their favorite chairs when I, their 9-year-old son, approached...

Start simple: seeds, dirt, water. Whoever heard of 10-acre properties with deed restrictions stating that you can't have any animal except dogs or cats? They have bountiful knowledge in their specific fields.

When it comes to getting the screenings that make these early diagnoses possible, however, a University of Missouri researcher has found that rural women lag behind their suburban and urban counterparts.

Is there anything else I may be overlooking here that I should be checking into? So the mystery smell continues. 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...

I have four flats of seeds planted—a mixture of medicinal herbs and edible-garden staples—and I have a few more things, namely beans and radishes , that I want to direct-seed. I'm not sure we will be quite on track this year, but considering the lagging...

People are more interested in farming than they've been in years. Vegetable-Centric Diets Carol Von Canon/Flickr Of course, it's hard to say what will happen. A Transition To Urban Farming USDA/Flickr This jump in population may also mean more food must...

I'm still on the hunt for a good sandwich bread recipe. I've learned that you can do a lot with sourdough, so it's not only been nourishing to our family, it's been nourishing to my creative spirit, as well.

Their proximity to our deck and hot tub was, well, proximate . It was a nice fall day, but the area where the hives are was still cool. There are heaps of stories about beekeepers approaching their hive without protection and escaping unscathed, while...

It's crazy-making. Dealing with why “potassium,” which clearly begins with the letter “P” is labeled “K” is confusing enough. When to use it? And because I'm a person who likes to share, here is a super-simplified guide to fertilizing your...

This vendor was not certified. It's business, and I get that, but it's misleading and the customer isn't be getting a fair shake. It seems absurd that conventional farmers aren't required to put in bold “We Use Chemicals” on their products.

Your Thoughts We asked you on social media how you'd answer this question. 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...