Sue Lani Madsen, an architect and rancher, will write opinion for the Spokesman-Review on an occasional basis. Photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. JESSE TINSLEY jesset@spokesman.com (Jesse Tinsley / ...

If you jump into hobby farming with both feet, there's a good chance you'll feel overwhelmed with the care of three or four species of animals that are new to you, plus managing a garden and trying to ...

A hobby farm can provide its owner with hours of enjoyment tending to livestock and harvesting crops. The farm can also create hours of frustration when tax season comes around and it is time to file ...

I noticed it when first learning farming 14 years ago, traveling around small diverse vegetable farms in the US and Ecuador. Small farms that made all their household income from the farm struggled ...

More and more people are practicing farming because they enjoy the outdoors, animals and the fruits of their labor as opposed to farming as a primary source of income. Even though “hobby farming” can ...

A study has found hobby farms put more money into rural communities than conventional farms. Victorian not-for-profit group Agribusiness Gippsland commissioned Melbourne University to do the research.

About an hour before the start of a spring storm, Dominique Salamone surveyed her three-quarter-acre Northridge yard and commenced an impromptu master class in suburban chicken raising. “You have to ...

A hobby farmer in Denmark Township has mowed out a Minnesota-style welcome to the president of the United States ahead of Air Force One’s possible fly by. Moved by the president’s upcoming stop in ...

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