Got bats? If conditions permit, adding a bat box to the garden is a great way to invite our flying friends into a safe home. It is a project that requires some basic carpentry skills, but once ...
DIY Guide: How to Install a Deer Fence to Keep Wildlife Out of the Garden
Outside of inviting a pair of roving mountain lions into your garden to act as deterrents, installing a deer fence is your best option to keep deer out of your garden. This installation isn’t ...
Get Them Deer Out of Here with These Tips
I’m torn on this one. On the one hand, I understand the indiscriminate hunger of deer and the damage they can do to a landscape, or your carefully tended garden. In a single night, they can ravage ...
23 Beneficial Insects and Other Creepy Crawlies That Your Garden Will Love
It's late summer here, and my yard is alive with insects. Wasps and bees dip in and out of daylily blossoms, butterflies flutter between the zinnias, and spiders have made an intricate network of webs ...
Laugh Your Way Through Chicken Husbandry with “The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens”
Full disclosure: I don’t have chickens. My homeowner’s association prohibits them. Nor, before reading this book, did I particularly want a flock. HOA rules aside, a couple of my neighbors raise ...
Bats Beat Bugs: Welcoming Bats Into the Garden
Ever since I was a child, a favorite pastime during the summer evenings was watching bats fly over an open yard. I’d lie down in the shaggy grass and watch them hunt, admiring their acrobatics. ...
Your Guide to Growing Chicken Scratch Greens for Healthy Chickens
Chickens are such an integral and beloved part of today’s homesteads and family farms. It’s no surprise that more and more attention is being given to making sure that they are not only healthy, but ...
Attract Crowds of Hummingbirds to Your Backyard With These Awesome Feeders!
Getting a good look at hummingbirds isn’t easy – unless you can attract them and convince them to stick around for a while. One of the best ways to do this is with a feeder made especially for ...
How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Garden
After a long flight from South America, a bird could use a juicy meal and a place to rest, right? For purple martins, those tasty insects and summer lodgings could be in your yard, if you offer these ...
Chickens in the Garden: What You Need to Know
I have lived on a farm or homestead for 32 of my 39 years of life. During most of those years, we tended to large gardens and kept a sizeable flock of poultry. Even now, I have a flock of 50 or ...
