In this excerpt from The Urban Farmer, courtesy of New Society Publishers, Curtis Stone offers an innovative approach to urban backyard farming for profit — one that doesn’t require starting with ...

More backyard farms are emerging to supplement household nutrition and income. Backyard farming topped discussions at the World Food Day by Gourmet Guide Communications at the University of Lagos at ...

Backyard gardens in the United States are most often supplemental to a household’s diet, and, sometimes, they’re more of a hobby than even that. But given the food supply disruptions and uncertainties ...

Buckets of wriggling worms. Horse troughs on the patio. A kiddy pool inhabited by ducks. Grapes on the roof. Strawberries 5 feet in the air. A giant pile of compost. Llama dropping "tea." These are ...

In a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, researchers at Cornell University evaluated the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the generation and intake of ...

Each morning when Colin Phipps' two young sons get up, they run outside to the chicken coop to gather eggs for breakfast. Next year, the family is planning on expanding their farm by adding a little ...

My mornings started with a gentle clucking as the chickens roused themselves from the dusty loft of their coop stationed in my backyard. It was bizarre, but sweet. I never saw myself as a farm-girl ...