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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEET FIRST: Jeff Poppen, the "Barefoot Farmer," returns to Asheville July 9-10 to lead an intensive workshop on biodynamic principles at Living Web Farms in Mills River. Photo courtesy of Living Web ...

We’ve had some good snows lately, but don’t let that lull you into complacency because Spring! will be here before your knees get tired of flexing through the bumps. And with spring, comes gardens. It ...

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 ...