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 ...
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 ...
With the increasing number of people entering the food movement and selling produce and craft foods, determining if one qualifies as a farm is important to understand. The term “farm” includes stock, ...
When he was a child, Walker Miller would pick berries and bring them to his mother, who baked “the best blueberry pie you ever ate,” he recalls. Today, Miller, 66, a retired Clemson University plant ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia is for lovers and for hobby farmers, ranking as the 3rd-best U.S. state for casual farming in a study from Lawn Love. The Commonwealth came out on top in Lawn Love’s ...
It happened slowly. Mary Carrion always loved knitting so she learned how to spin yarn. She liked the spinning so she bought a couple of sheep. Then, she added ...
is now fighting to be allowed to continue the farming life they have been building for three years. Kelly VanderKley and her husband, David Hunter, both employed full time off the farm, have a house, ...
This year, Teresa Mulhausen will celebrate her 20th anniversary with her barn. Mulhausen has operated Wyndtree Farm, a horse boarding business where she also gives riding lessons, just outside Swisher ...