Drawing on nearly 50 years of teaching organic farming and gardening, the staff of the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship and invited authors have developed an updated and expanded resource ...

For nearly a decade, Dani F. Baker has been growing, sharing and advising others about the “edible forest” method of gardening. Four years ago, her award-winning book, “The Home-Scale ...

Farming and gardening share superficial similarities, but in reality are very different. Both farming and gardening present their own unique challenges, so the same standards and expectations simply ...

What are some dry land farming methods? Pick up tips for selecting desert-hardy vegetable varieties for a dry climate and tactics for successful growing. Earth’s climate is in a perpetual state of ...

On a visit to the University of California Santa Cruz's Farm and Garden a few years ago, I met an apprentice who was trying to grow an entire year's food supply in one small corner of the farm. He ...

MOST CITIES ALLOW homeowners to raise a restricted number of farm animals, and you frequently can spy chickens in a Seattle backyard. There are, of course, rules regulating what kind and how many farm ...

As people pick up new hobbies while they remain in self-quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in gardening and farming is experiencing a boom among Americans. Developing a green thumb is a ...

Agriculture is a top industry in Virginia with an estimated $70 billion to the economy annually. Virginia has nearly 44,800 farms spreading across nearly 8.1 million acres of land. Weather plays a ...