These devices have revolutionized farming, allowing farmers to harvest vast tracks of land quickly with only a few employees. The difference between this system and the combine is the maize sheller is specifically designed for corn and cannot be used...
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Hobby Farms. Step 10: Tumble Your Root Veggies Gravity pulls the root crops down as the belt movement tries to pull them up, and you control the speed with cranking.
The bog is layered with alternating strata of sand, peat, grave and clay and is a specific environment that cranberries are well suited to. When spring arrives, the vines send out upright sprouts from the runners, which then produce flowers followed by...
The aeroponic system is a type of hydroponic technology that sprays a mist directly onto the roots with the nutrients, hydration and oxygen the plants need, allowing the plants to be grown in buildings without soil or sunlight throughout the year.
I don't like a lot of excess in the barn,” she says. Even though they're young, they're thinking decades down the road to when they can't lift or do the strenuous physical labor required in so many farm tasks.
On a small scale, straining into 1/2-gallon jars and placing in a freezer for an hour should do the trick. The milk is strained into 8-gallon stainless-steel buckets, which are placed inside a bin a full of water inside the freezer.
While I've never personally experienced life as a chicken, my farm has chickens—a lot of them—both meat birds and laying hens that are either free-range or kept in chicken tractors on pasture.
It wasn't easy, with all the strong blizzard blowing in my face, and it wasn't easy for the dogs either, but they are strong and will survive to this freeze too, if I can help it.A snow plow came every day, even during the blizzard, and cleaned our street,...
Pumpkin as a popular ingredient is #7. I'd never seen pumpkins like these, however. I confess, I bought a pie pumpkin only once, and went through the hours-long process of cutting, seeding, roasting, peeling, scraping, pureeing, and draining.
