If you want healthy food, experts say to eat what's local, organic and in-season. It doesn't get more local, organic and ...

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Learn step-by-step how to turn your backyard into a productive and profitable farm. From growing vegetables to raising small livestock, discover tips for maximizing yield and income in limited space.

Mr. Buckner, a neighbor in our Ninth Ward New Orleans neighborhood, planted vegetables in his backyard. The Buckners, who had no children, taught me, my sister and Freddie who lived next door how to ...

This week on Backyard Farmer we’ll prepare our vegetables and ornamentals for planting. This week on Backyard Farmer we’ll prepare our vegetables and ornamentals by hardening them off and we’ll check ...

This video is about growing edamame beans at home. Edamame is soybean and just like any bean, it can be grown in the backyard vegetable garden. Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property ...

Root Vegetable Candy: As the days get shorter and colder in the fall, the root vegetables in the garden get sweeter. Anything I harvest at that time gets roasted in the oven and ends up as sweet as ...

While there’s still plenty of debate swirling around the age-old question, Hartford resident Travis Stewart is certain what came first for him: the egg. Then came the chickens. The self-proclaimed ...

Last week I dug Irish potatoes, planted purple hull peas, picked my first pole beans to snap, saved a cherry tomato plant from a fat tobacco horn worm, and fetched a big chicken snake out of a hen’s ...