Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If urban homesteading is your dream (or merely your PVC-pipe dream), you need Spike Carlsen’s “The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects” (Storey, ...

Geese make terrific watch birds, and both geese and ducks make excellent sausages and roasting birds. Plus, they’re incredibly easy keepers — the easiest of all poultry to raise. In The Backyard ...

RED HOOK, N.Y. – Hudson Valley Kinders Farm has launched online courses in backyard homesteading and goat raising. These courses can be accessed at hudsonvalleykinders.com and are an alternative to ...

Calamity Jane is not your typical housewife. Although she cooks most of her family’s food from scratch, bakes fresh bread once a week, puts every kind of fruit she meets into a canning jar, helps her ...

Homestead is saying “yes in my backyard” to a multi-million dollar open space plan in their neighborhood. The county commissioners want to spend $3.25 million for 160 acres of open space that borders ...