Has your backyard garden sprawled into a major operation, prompting you to wonder whether you've actually become a farmer? Here's how to know. If you’ve got a sizeable garden operation that has gone ...

When we think about gardening, things like planting, watering, and harvesting usually come to mind first. But in reality, there’s a lot more to it—including what’s going on just below the surface. Yes ...

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I was speaking to a group in Sun City, S.C., this week and had a chance to chit chat about colors as I was setting up. One avid gardener stated her favorite color was lime green and that she loved to ...

I spent a couple of hours at the weekend preparing a bed for next year’s brassicas. I’m trying to reorganise my vegetable plot to make it easier to maintain and so I’ve started building some raised ...

When fall comes, most gardeners are busy readying the garden for winter by removing dead and diseased branches, raking leaves, and winterizing tools. Another step that can sometimes be forgotten is ...

John and Jess Skermer and family are selling the 711ha Lime Creek farm near Chatsworth, in Victoria’s west, with offers of more than $16 million expected. The Skermer family have operated Lime Creek ...

The Urban Agriculture Conference’s Manhattan farm tour—as in the central borough of New York City, not Manhattan, Kan.—called into question everything I knew about farming. And as a former farm kid, I ...