Give your bees water and an internal feeder to ensure they have it for more than 24 hours of sealing. Put a mesh screen at ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

There are multiple ways to improve drainage, including planting deep-rooted cover crops, aerating with a chisel plow or ...

Your broadfork is one of the best small-scale farm tools, especially in areas where soils compact year after year, whether ...

One farmer developed a simple wheeled seat that rolls down a rail in his greenhouse path. Rather than constantly bending over ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini marshmallows ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an apple tree. It may be gnarly, with limbs clawing ...

It was hot in Louisiana, and after 15 hours in the car to get there from Virginia, Joshua Fitzwater and Debra Freeman stepped into the humidity that is common in the community of Calhoun. They had ...

Before dawn on an October morning, a thick fog wends its way down the many trails of Maine’s Peaks Island, coating the trees and fields in a gray blanket. A man makes his way along the trails, peering ...