- Posted: Sunday, January 29, 2012
- By: John
- 64 Views

We love our goats and have had many through the years. The females have kids every year and they help keep the pasture in check. When our goat population becomes to large, we trade or sell them.
- Categories: Food & Farming » Images
- Tags: Billie, Blessing, Bovidae, Buck, Caprinae, Curse, DOE, Farm, Goat, Kids, Nannie, Pasture, sell, Trade, Wethers
- Posted: Sunday, January 15, 2012
- By: News Rover
- 637 Views

This is a great photo documentary of life on a self sufficient farm in Northern Kentucky. The photos have been incorporated into a video with some sub-titles. These people have a great spread in a beautiful part of the world.
- Posted: Saturday, December 24, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 77 Views

When Myrna and Earl Fincher married 53 years ago they started farming their yard “out of necessity”. Today, the Finchers make a living selling their organic produce to restaurants and at the local farmers’ market twice a week for much of the year. They had no experience as farmers, but learned by trial and error.
- Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 56 Views

The principles of growing food are universal. Don’t trust someone else with your life. There is much we can learn from Kris Olsen of the Milagro Farm.
- Categories: Food & Farming » Videos
- Tags: Backyard, Bio-Dynamic, Chicken, DVD, Farming, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Heritage Seeds, Self-Sufficiency, Vegetables
- Posted: Thursday, December 8, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 66 Views

Over several years, he transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family’s food.
- Categories: Food & Farming » Videos
- Tags: Berries, California, Farmstead, Four Acres, Fruit Trees, Garden, Geese, Heritage, Homestead, Mushrooms, Pasture, Self-Sufficiency, Sheep, Vegetables, Voose Grotto
- Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 55 Views

Is there some way for we the people who live on a fixed income that is well below the national poverty line to eat healthy, or is eating healthy only for the rich?
- Categories: Food & Farming » Health
- Tags: BHA, BHT, Breakfast, Budget, Dinner, Farm, Food, GMO, Health, Lunch, MSG, non-GMO, Organic, Vegetables
- Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 392 Views

Are you thinking about having an urban-suburban indoor garden? Today, indoor farming’s a trend on the upswing, and for many good reasons. Among them is reducing exposure to the increasing outbreaks of Salmonella and deadly Listeria invading the food chain.
- Categories: Food & Farming » Videos
- Tags: Apples, Banana, Blueberries, Farming, Food, Fresh Food, Fruits, Herbs, Indoor Garden, Lemon, Orange, Organic Food, Vegetables, Victory Garden
- Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 100 Views

With so many chicken breeds (plus hybrids and crossbred chickens), you’re sure to find the kind of chickens that are just right for your needs.
- Categories: Food & Farming
- Tags: Australorps, Backyard, Barnevelders, Brahmas, Buckeyes, Catalana, Chanteclers, Chickens, Eggs, Farm Fresh, Fertilizer, Hamburg, Hatchery, Leghorns, Marans, Minorca, Old English Game, Rhode Island Reds, White-Faced Black Spanish
- Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 128 Views

The August 3, 2011, shakedown of the Rawesome food cooperative in Venice, California, in spite of the tragic outcome, has produced one positive result.
- Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
- By: News Rover
- 295 Views

Mechanization and automation have reduced the difficult physical labor of food production, but they’ve also rendered agriculture dependent on non-renewable, polluting substitutes.
- Categories: Food & Farming
- Tags: Agriculture, Agro-ecology, Automation, Farm, Farming, Fertilizers, Genetic Diversity, Machines, Mechanization, Non-renewable, Olivier de Schutter, People, Pesticides, Polluting, Righteous Porkchop, Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry, World War II