Articles
Home, Garden & Food
Hobby Farm Home
Farm-fresh feasts
Ideas and activities for enjoying the great outdoors
Hobby Farm Home
Blogging like it’s your business
Take your farm blog from personal narrative to profitable information disseminator with advice from experienced bloggers.
Beekeeping
Buzz your back yard
Create the ideal garden to attract and sustain honeybees.
Hobby Farm Home
Clip or Click
With a snip of the scissors or the click of a mouse, save money on home and kitchen essentials that supplement your garden's bounty and keep your home spick-and-span.
Urban Farm
The Great Garden Scheme
Newbie gardeners, have no worries. Plot along with this guide to grow the hottest garden spot, even in the cold season.
Homemade Bread
By Bread Alone
Baking your own bread can be romantically sentimental, but it can also be practical and healthy. Here’s a rundown of the major elements of bread making.
Meat & Sausage
Thank You for Smoking
Used together with curing, smoking preserves meat and imparts flavor.
Cheesemaking
Good as Mold
Every cheese lover holds a special place in his or her heart for mold-and bacteria-ripened cheeses like Brie, Camembert, and Gorgonzola. Although time-intensive, these cheeses are worth the effort.
ParentLife
Dig In!
More than 7 million Americans broke the soil for a new garden in 2009, and the craze continues. Here’s why you and your family should join them and how to get started.
Hobby Farm Home
The Incredible, Edible Fruitscape
Apple trees, berry bushes and other fruit-bearing plants aren’t just for the orchard or garden; numbers of homeowners are incorporating fruiting plants into their landscape designs to get both aesthetic enjoyment and physical nourishment from the same plant.
Canning & Preserving
Dark, Dank, Delightful
In this special issue on home food preservation from the editors of Hobby Farms, my article examines root cellaring, a low-cost, low-tech, sustainable option for storing fresh vegetables and fruits.
Relish
The New School Lunch
At Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, cafeteria meals get their start in the on-campus, student-run organic garden.
Hobby Farm Home
Creativity Contained
Container gardening isn’t just for cramped urbanites. Even on an expansive farm, container gardens can add personality, creativity and panache to the landscape.
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