Pretty much every farm animal can be raised for profit if you know what you're doing. We're giving you the pros and cons of each.

The Best Livestock Choices for Hobby Farming, Backyard Farms and Urban Homesteads

Low maintenance farm animals promote sustainable practices and are a wise choice for beginners or those with limited experience in farming.

Hobby farm update! In late September my beautiful garden froze. We weren't expecting such an early freeze (a full 3 week earlier than the average frost date for our area) or we would have covered

Did you know you could earn a living off of your land? The more you dive into hobby farming and homesteading, the more you realize: there is no “off season.” In other words you complete one task to move to the next, and are constantly shifting your focus based on the time of year. Early springtime means starting seedlings, and hatching chicks. Then planting season begins, which moves to maintaining your gardens, the high egg production of summer time, honey, raising cattle and pigs, cut…

By Ben Hartman This article is adapted from Hartman’s book The Lean Farm Guide to Growing Vegetables (Chelsea Green, 2017) and is excerpted with permission from the publisher. In 2011 I received an

Farmers continue to form the backbone of the agri-food sector, which is our most important indigenous exporting industry, playing a vital role in the economy, with 135,000 farms producing over €9.5bn in output annually. In 2021, agri-food exports accounted for 9.3pc of total merchandising exports, with a value of €15.4bn, marking growth of 50pc since 2012.