BRASILIA, Sept 13 – When farmer Rubens Braz started breeding Brazilian chickens, he had no idea how big the operation – or the birds – would get. Some twenty years later, he now raises giant roosters ...

FORT ATKINSON – Ashley Weiser grew up with cats and dogs and always envisioned working with animals. When she and her husband Dan, a wildlife ecologist, purchased a rural Fort Atkinson property with a ...

More and more people are practicing farming because they enjoy the outdoors, animals and the fruits of their labor as opposed to farming as a primary source of income. Even though “hobby farming” can ...

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Hobby farmer Paul Leuders would have trouble growing plants on his sandy soil. Using fish scraps for compost makes the difference. 27,143 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it ...

MOUNT VERNON — Terry Arndt was looking for ways to make money with his 5-acre hobby farm that still left him with time to spend with his family. He said could have tried making extra income with a ...

When does one cross the line from becoming an avid gardener to hobby or weekend farmer? I recently put that question to three converts during filming for a new episode of "Growing a Greener World." ...