Hobby Farms magazine provides the small-farm operator and country enthusiast with advice and the latest information on agricultural life regardless of whether the goal is pleasure or profit. Each issue helps readers become more skilled and successful in farming and ranch life while encouraging them to embrace rural living.
As a bimonthly consumer publication with subscribers, newsstand and direct sales throughout North America, Hobby Farms serves the industry by positioning itself as the premier source of news and information for small-farm operators and enthusiasts. The main focus remains on the lifestyle aspects of owning and operating a hobby farm. All feature-length articles, columns and department items are written to inform and entertain. Above all, the magazine conveys the passion its readership has for rural living.
Hobby Farms articles cover a broad range of topics for small-acreage farmers, homesteaders and even urban farmers who aspire to leave the city and move to the country. Each issue covers care for animals including chickens, ducks, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs and more. It publishes several annual issues including one on poultry and one on other livestock. Fall brings harvesting and food-preservation tips, while winter issues provide advice to not only survive but also thrive during the cold months. Spring issues burst forth with growing advice for orchard, field and garden, whether it's kitchen, backyard, raised-bed or container. Hobby Farms offers expert and easy-to-understand advice, product reviews, livestock and animal care tips, gardening, do-it-yourself projects and profiles of farmers living their dream.
Hobby Farms’ well-educated readers typically have full-time careers outside farming that produce most of their income. They farm simply for the pleasure of growing and raising their own food. However, the trend is more people homesteading with an eye toward profits in addition to the pleasure of being in control of their food sour
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Hobby Farms Mar/April 2021.
Spring Tracks
ag bites rural news and advice from across the country
If you live in an area of the country that receives significant winter snowfall, then you know the feeling of excitement when the snow ...
Beans + Taters
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recent study found that partnering potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) with common garden beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) such as green beans and yellow wax beans produced an increased potato tuber size...
Make Microclimates
Unconventional gardening
Two to 3 inches of mulch can cool the soil during the summer and help retain moisture, as well as protect plants from the cold during the winter by mode...
Farm storehouse
Compiled by Sarah E. Coleman
1. The WeatherBeeta Dry-Dog Toweling Fleece Bag keeps dirty paw prints off floors or car seats. www.weatherbeeta.com
2. The new CS2220 and CS2520 models ...
Morel Values
Wild Food Farmer Be Smart Finding Fault In Season Foraging for Foragers This column is intended to provide general information only. Do not eat any wild edible plants, herbs, weeds, trees or bushes u...
LAST TASTE OF Winter
ne of my favorite recipes, this wonderful vegetable chowder is warm, filling and comforting while remaining fresh at the same time. It’s easy to put together; making the roux for the creamy sauce is...