Farming Articles for Homesteading and Small Scale Farmers

Feel free to browse through the farming articles here on various topics, some of course controversial like the first article on food safety. However, you may also like to express your own opinion on current farming trends and whether you think there is a lack of conscience by those in the food industry.

We have had BSE and now we have had the China milk scandal of adding melamine to milk. We have had bird flu which had people running scared from poultry and swine flu that had people thinking twice about eating pork products. While some are concerned about the mercury levels in fish, others are worried about the pesticide sprays on vegetables and fruit.

Cancers increase, new cancers and illnesses appear. The bees a disappearing, and so are the ice caps.

Do you have an opinion on where this is all going? Would you like to rant a little? Feel free to do so here, and see what others are saying about the matter.

1. Food Issues

- How Safe is our Food?: Are we Eating Toxic Fruit and Vegetables?

- Food Safety Certification

2. Crops

- Cover Crops: What are cover crops and their use in soil improvement

3. Organic Farming

- Organic Certification in the UK and How to Apply

- Organic Certification in the Global Market

- What exactly is Organic Farming?

- Organic Labeling What does it all mean?

- Why go Organic? - Protect your Health

- Why go Organic? - The Benefits of Superfoods

- Why go Organic? - Better Taste

- Why go Organic? - To Preserve the Ecology

4. Biodynamic Farming

- Biodynamic Farming - What does it Offer the Organic Farmer?

5. Worm Farming

- How to Set up A Simple Worm Farm and Make Compost in 4 Months

6. Fish Farming

- Fish Farming: On a Small Scale

- Fish Farming: Setting up your Fish Farming Ponds

- Fish Farming: Choosing your Fish

- Fish Farming: Building Hatching Trays and Rearing Ponds

- Fish Farming: Managing the Ova and Alevins

- Fish Farming: Fry Care and Feeding

- Fish Farming: Natural Friends and Enemies

- Fish Farming: Turning out the Fish

7. Gardening

- Gardening with Vinegar: An organic pesticide, insecticide and herbicide

8. Real Estaste

- Buying Country Acreage: To Buy or Not to Buy?

9. Farming Practices

- Pesticides: Why you shouldn't use them

10. Vertical Farming

- Vertical Farming: City Buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up, instead of out.

10. Community Supported Farming

- Community Supported Agriculture: Looking at the Pros and Cons of CSA Farming.

11. CSA Farming FAQ

- CSA Farming FAQ: Looking at answers to frequently asked questions on CSA Farming.

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