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Poultry and Produce: Keeping Your Poultry in Your Garden
“When we were given five or six adult chickens, we learned that we had to keep the chickens out of the garden area, so we put up a chicken wire fence around the vegetable beds,” Demi Stearns recalls....
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Button Quail: Adorable By Any Name
Button quail, which are also known as Chinese painted quail, Chung-Chi, Asian blue quail or blue- breasted quail, are well, cute as a button! The smallest of the true quail, this species is endemic to...
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When The iGeneration Gardens
Photos and Story By Kenny Coogan, Florida Turning off your televisions and mobile devices and spending some uninterrupted time with your family and yard may not only be good for your health. It will...
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Growing Squash in Containers: Green Striped Cushaw
Growing squash in containers, or small defined areas, came easy for my friend MJ. One morning she woke up and saw a splattered squash on the street. Looking directly above the crime scene in her...
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12 Ways To Improve Plant Sales
I purchased my one-acre homestead for its location, mature trees and potential to grow rows and rows of vegetables. It was an added benefit when I discovered that my backyard neighbors, who had 40...
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Summer Smoothie Recipes
The last year or so of high school through college, a close group of friends and I would go rollerblading or bike riding along the river. We would travel between three and 10 miles each trip and when...
View ArticleWe Try To Put All the Poultry Clichés and Idioms in One Basket
Our backyard poultry have infiltrated many aspects of our lives. They have their own feed stores, their own medical complexes and even their own departments within many extension offices. They have...
View ArticleA Vocabulary List Built Just for Chicken Owners
My substitution for Sports Illustrated, Men’s Fitness and Harper’s magazines were always easy: Strombergs, Murray McMurray Hatchery and Holderread Waterfowl. These magazines would keep me occupied for...
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Top 10 Witch Hazel Uses
Available in lotions, pads, distilled extracts and even suppositories, witch hazel uses are widespread. Earlier this summer I was weeding in shorts, and I was stung or bitten on my inner thigh by an...
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Growing a Community with School Garden Grants
School garden grants are only a piece of what makes a plot sustainable. Much like a child, it takes a village to care for a school garden, especially a sustainable one. When I started my school garden...
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Identify and Store Nuts for the Winter
Scarlet leaves are among us as the nights become cooler. If you are starting to feel a little squirrelly, you are not alone. It is the chilly fall that encourages those popular plume-tailed bandits to...
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Peace, Love and Pigeons
Releasing white homing pigeons will surely add majesty to a wedding or enlightened spirituality to a memorial service. Throughout time, birds have been used in ceremonies and events. White homing...
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The Cushaw Squash
Probably deep in the stages of REM sleep, my Tampa, Florida, friend MJ Clark suddenly woke up to the sound of a large object falling through a tree, building momentum and only halting to the asphalt...
View ArticleA Recipe for Luxurious Luffas
“Taste this,” Paew Piromya tells me in her father’s Bangkok restaurant as she passes a green vegetable dish with brown gravy across the table. “Guess what it is.” The thick vegetarian gravy had...
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4 Tips for Composting Chicken Manure
For those of you with vegetable and flower beds, or for those of you who just have lawns, I feel it is unnecessary, if not wasteful, to discard poultry manure every week and then also purchase...
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The Lessons of Mindy Lighthipe and Her Artful Garden
Art is long and life is short. With many of our growing seasons coming to an end, a great way to preserve our ornamental and vegetable crops is by drawing them. “I believe drawing evokes the senses,”...
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A Year-Round Chicken Care Calendar
I couldn’t think of a better New Year’s resolution than starting your own backyard chicken flock. This next year is going to bring you mixed feelings of eagerness and anxiety with hopefully the...
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Delightful Sebrights
Active, spunky and easily tamed, this British bantam breed is currently listed as “threatened” on the Conservation Priority List. Sebrights, named after their developer Sir John Sebright is considered...
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Find a Sweet Spot for Growing Eggplants
Spongey, Bitter, mushy. Compared to Brussel sprouts and Congress’s approval ratings, eggplants only score slightly higher. This should not be the case! Eggplants are versatile in the kitchen, easy to...
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5 Quail Breeds to Diversify and Add Value to Your Flock
When considering quail breeds to raise; size, egg production, and temperament should lead your decision making. Some species may be kept in coveys, perfect for larger-scale productions. Others do...
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