What Is Dude Ranch

Mulch Insulates and Protects: It insulates soil to protect soil organisms and plant roots from extreme weather, as well as insulate them from sudden fluctuations, such as freezing temperatures, drying sun or compaction from heavy rains.

Sometimes You'll Never Know If your chickens came from a feed store, the people working might not know for sure what they're selling. Is there any way of telling them apart?” If your chick order includes a handful of different breeds , learn as much...

Note: Silkies can play this game for weeks. Slapstick Chicks You haven't experienced humor until you've had a flock of your own. More exciting than growing cucumbers and less demanding than breeding bulls, rearing your own flock imparts enjoyment on many...

Today, ranching is intensive and limited, with many regulation constraints, explains Eric Schwennesen, the current ranch owner. “[Water is in short supply, and] everything else waits on that.

Although Maya Angelou was never a farmer, we farmers can learn a lot from her attitude and composure. But farmers hold the unique qualities of embracing their callings, living them out passionately and always being true to the core of who they are.

So seriously, they'll even grow corn on a cliff, as shown above. I was amazed at how many people would actually pay me to come over and look at a bug in their garden and I would finally tell them to just fertilize more.

The 75-megawatt Martin concentrating-solar-power plant installed in Florida is the largest to go online in nearly 20 years and foreshadows a pipeline of more than 9 gigawatts of concentrating-solar-power projects under development.

We tend to our crops, animals, family and land. And that has definite mental health ramifications. My brain is a part of my body, and an important one at that, so, yeah, I'll take medicine to help my mental health.

Mark Harrell, owner of Bad Axe Tools and saw maker extraordinaire, handed it to me and set up a wood scrap so I could try cutting a tenon. Again, for the most part they will be things that I see a purpose in and know I will use.

The culture of loving and giving they've created in our community is felt and noticed, and changes are being made. Enthusiasm is contagious. I've crossed a number of people with enthusiasm and passion over the years, and each of their faces brings a sweet...

Because rutabagas are members of the mustard family, they share many of the same pests and disease issues commonly found with broccoli, cabbage or turnips. Read more of Garden In Front » Tags rutabagas

(As did the giant pot of chili I made Monday night; my mother always said there was no better food in winter than a steaming bowl of soup.) Lo and behold, the polar vortex eventually gave way to “normal” January temperatures across the country—Lexington...

« More Mondays with Martok » Tags homeopathic remedies , homeopathy , Mondays with Martok Hahnemann and his followers began experimenting with other plants, minerals and animal substances, conducting “provings” (clinical trials) and entering their...

One of the coast live oaks is estimated to be 700 years old. Someone lives there.The formal gardens are immediately adjacent to the east and south of the main house. Ask any Texan, Oklahoman, or Saudi.

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata), also known as winterholly, brightens winter landscape with brilliant berries. Keep fallen leaves and berries cleaned up from the ground to prevent accidental ingestion.

Keep your eyes on hatchery catalogs, and before you know it, you'll be raising those Lakenvelders you always dreamed of. I think this sentiment is especially applicable to farmers, homesteaders and rural dreamers alike.

Pretty cool, but that's not why it's becoming so trendy. Ashitaba is an angelica species, which are members of the carrot family and tend to be biannuals. Sometimes it's a new supplement.

Biologically, and evolutionarily, it would serve no purpose for a chicken to lay fertilized eggs in the dead of winter because any hatchlings would be sure to perish in those conditions.

Because they're taller, you don't have to lift them as high. Suddenly, the advantages offered by tall rectangle containers become disadvantages—their height and narrow footprint means their center of gravity is higher, so they're more prone to tipping...

Leaf-footed bugs are a confirmed garden nuisance in many regions of North America, including portions of California and many states in the Eastern Seaboard, spanning from as far north as New York down to Florida.

A team of cyclists collects yard and kitchen scraps and delivers them to community gardens and urban farms. The company marries the idea of composting with bicycling, creating one of the greener and more convenient ways to compost—one that also benefits...

Soil that is ready for planting is easy to dig and yields to your shovel. Frozen soil feels very solid and does not give way under foot. Digging frozen soil is hard work and the minute you realize you are working way too hard just to turn up the soil...

If it doesn't sell, that's not viable. A lot of energy is placed in cleaning, packaging, labeling, cooling, traveling, and then setting up and selling. Joining a farmers market may seem like a given for small-scale farmers, but for many, it isn't.

They were cozily bedded down for the winter in the safety and comfort of an open-air barn. Their paths crossed again 10 years after their first meeting. “We bought our land on Oct.

The Internet was crawling with novices just like me whose aspirations in sustainability led them to a seemingly sudden chicken obsession. Folks used to keep chickens on city lots before grocery stores and factory food became main sources of supply, so...

A balance of those two things will make delivery service that much more successful. Delivery complicates that as you may never see the person you are feeding, thus never get to cultivate that relationship.

Once transplanted, only those seedlings known to be especially sensitive to damping off need be misted with fungicide daily until the first or second seed leaves have emerged.Another option may include seed treatment.