Eventually, she also became interested in making cheese, and began selectively breeding the goats to be high in milk production and high in butterfat. John, a longtime farmer and rancher, and Colleen bought their Garden Farms property in 1976 and started planting their acres of blackberries, olallieberries, boysenberries, raspberries and loganberries in 1984. Colleen formerly a teacher in Cal Poly s animal science department started with a few dairy goats to make milk for the family. As...

However, there are some domestic issues that must be addressed, not the least of which are proposals from the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in London (DEFRA) that farmers will have to pick up the bill for any future compensation in the event of a livestock disease epidemic. The fortunes of the industry tend to go in cycles, but the signs are now more positive than for many years; grain prices are on the rise, and that will inevitably filter throughout the entire...

But as more and more people began to stop by their Loganville farm asking to buy poultry, goat meat and eggs, they began selling what they produced. Part of their duties include killing and processing the goats and poultry they raise for meat. The Emkeys keep white cornish chickens, heritage turkeys, free-range muscovy ducks and goats. When it s time to slaughter an animal, they take it to the other side of the barn, out of the view of the rest of the herd. Rich Emkey loves potatoes, so...

Having spent five years growing up on a cattle ranch, and having lived in and around strong agricultural communities most of my life, I can t imagine buying New Zealand lamb while living down the road from a sheep farm. Others are practicing for what they see as the coming oil crash, when the cost of shipping will become prohibitively expensive, or because they just believe in sustainable living. Part of the reason for that is economic: We bought cheese from the local plant growing up...

Plentiful fertile lands became productive farms that filled stores with high-quality food and cargo ships with wool, wheat and beef. It's sterile, so it's safe for the kids, if they happen to be playing with the garden hose, and it's safe to wash the clothes with. Trainer is trying to convince his fellow Australians that the standard of living they enjoy is at someone else's expense. Trainer made them to show how anyone with a little ingenuity can harness the wind or the tides to run...