Hobby Farms magazine is just that: a magazine about hobby farming! So here you'll find articles, recipes, and how-tos that are geared to the small-scale "pleasure" farmer who may take some ...

Hobby farms on rise among escapees from city lifestyle / Without much experience, Boomers, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Phil Jacobs was just a teenager when his parents bought a scenic Kentucky farm with hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a view of the Ohio River. Decades later, he still spent ...

Let it be known that Delore ”Mike” Michael doesn`t farm ladybugs, even though he owns the Ladybug Farm in Spring Grove. Michael is an organic farmer who raises produce that he sells to Chicago ...

Largely because of hobby farms, whose numbers are growing 2% a year and now account for about half of all farms, the population of rural counties is up 12% since 1990–the first gain in such ...

The 2012 farm census showed that farms covering less than 50 acres grew nearly 10 percent between 2002 and 2012, when there were more than 813,000 such farms nationwide.

Starting a small farm, or a Hobby Farm, can be the project of a lifetime or just a big headache. Transforming a big backyard ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia is for lovers and for hobby farmers, ranking as the 3rd-best U.S. state for casual farming in a study from Lawn Love. The Commonwealth came out on top in Lawn ...

Lennard says there is nothing "hobby farm" about the venture now. The average cost of buying a tonne of grapes is about $1500, and to convert this into wine costs another $1150 a tonne.

As a full-time sales rep for national van-line companies for 12 years, Ellen Sullivan understood radical moves. One day she decided to make one herself. Sullivan and her chemist husband, Paul ...

Nearly 300,000 new farms began production since the last census in 2002, and they tended to have fewer acres, lower sales and younger operators who also work off-farm, said Ginger Harris, a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Phil Jacobs was just a teenager when his parents bought a scenic Kentucky farm with hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a view of the Ohio River. Decades later, he still ...