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Farmwifery: Lessons learned on a Kentucky farm

Farmwifery: Lessons learned on a Kentucky farm

Farming is not something out of the pages of a magazine, although old stuff and a big country kitchen helps. A lot. Here are some of the things I've...

5 types of sustainable farming you can do

5 types of sustainable farming you can do

Do you dream of starting your own hobby farm or homestead?

Traders Hill Farms leads the way in aquaponics

Traders Hill Farms leads the way in aquaponics

This Hilliard, Florida, aquaponics farm is growing produce in a fraction of the space and time using fish and the water they naturally fertilize.

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They've Goat it Good at this Florida Goat Farm

They've "Goat" it Good at this Florida Goat Farm

A couple turns a plot of timberland into the property of their dreams, a homestead with a Western-themed Florida  goat farm.

Pickin' Time  Rethink Rural Blog  Country Living

Pickin' Time | Rethink Rural Blog | Country Living

Heading to the local grocery store is the given way to buy your produce. But what if you want to see where your food is coming from? You can grow...

Mississippi's PickYourOwn Fruit and Veggie Farms

Mississippi's Pick-Your-Own Fruit and Veggie Farms

Agriculture is Mississippi’s number one industry, according to Farm Families of Mississippi. “Missisippi boasts over 42,000 farms covering over 11...

Florida pickyourown fruit and vegetable farms

Florida pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms

Known as the Sunshine State, Florida is prime for perfect farming. A peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of...

Georgia pickyourown fruit and vegetable farms

Georgia pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms

According to the Georgia Farm Bureau, “agriculture contributes approximately $72.5 billion annually to Georgia's economy” and is the “largest...

Louisiana pickyourown fruit and vegetable farms

Louisiana pick-your-own fruit and vegetable farms

Louisiana is known for a lot of things: its Cajun personality and spicy jambalaya, swamps and gators, moss-covered trees and wrought iron...

Meet Vickey: The Sustainable Shepherd

Meet Vickey: The Sustainable Shepherd

Vickey Russell left a corporate city job and became a sustainable shepherd, herding sheep on her own grass farm in Murrayville, Georgia.