As a sheep farmer, you need to be able to recognize the sign of worms in sheep as early as possible. Not only does a parasite overload kill your flock, they are also a big reason why your herd won’t grow as quickly.. Managing the parasite load in sheep is critical for your success as …
Companion planting with strawberries is a wise move, especially when you don’t have a lot of space. We currently live on a ten-acre piece of land, which gives us plenty of areas to plant strawberries. However, most plants benefit from being interplanted with other species. Often they help each other out, either by weed control …
Taking care of your strawberry plants at the end of the season is important for your field or patch to make it through the winter. Strawberry plants are fragile things that do not handle hard frost well at all, which can make them tricky to keep alive. However, with the right precautions, your strawberry garden …
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Strawberries can grow in many different types of soils, but it helps to know what type of soil is best for strawberries. This will help you pick the best location to plant your strawberries, as well as help you amend your soil type. We had amazing success with our first strawberry plot. It used to …
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If you are wondering when to plant strawberries, you have come to the right place. As long as I can remember, we have had fresh garden strawberries during the summer. As a little girl, my mom had planted strawberries in her garden, and as soon as we moved onto our acreage, I planted some. Store-bought …
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Back in 2019, the summer that a wildfire raged a couple miles from our home, we purchased our first batch of sheep, 10 expectant ewes in total. Sheep are a ruminant mammal (which basically means an even-toed animal that chews its cud regurgutated from its rumen), typically kept as a livestock animal. Raised mostly for …
Lard is making more of a comeback in stores, and butcher shops. Are you wondering how to use lard? I still remember butchering pigs as a little girl. A bunch of my aunts and uncles would get together, and we would butcher a couple pigs in one day. Rendering the lard was done in a …
Compost has become a hot word in the gardening world, and for a good reason. The benefits of compost make the effort it takes to create some really worth it. I can’t remember where I first heard about compost. If I had known about the composting advantages earlier on, I would definitely have implemented it …
Making money from a hobby farm is hard. Too many people supplement their hobby farm with an outside job, and while that is good and fine, if you are looking for your hobby farm to carry itself financially, these small business ideas should get you off to a great start. Everything takes work. Usually, a …
Growing a profitable small farm is hard in today’s world. Not only do you need a lot of farmland, you need a lot of equipment and money to start out. What young farmer has a lot of these things in the beginning? Successful Farming decided to look into the cost of starting a farm and what …
