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Baby, it’s cold outside. Learn how to chop wood like a pro lumberjack — without wrecking your back.

An insecure food supply is an alarming prospect. Far from our urban congestion, from our military strongholds, from our political and financial centers, farms seem like cushy targets for acts of terror

We talk with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner about how his band came up with the name, his mother’s love of sheep, and his love of the farming life.

There are many reasons why growing numbers – primarily farmers and knitters – are fixated on the Icelandic sheep. The breed, with fine-grained meat and a wooly coat that is both light-as-air and rugged, has retained one of the purest bloodlines in the agricultural world and carries a romantic and wild history.

Sheeple, according to the wielders of the word, can belong to any number of flocks. You might be a sheeple (that's a fairly common construction, "a sheeple") if you: own a televisi...

Shepherd’s Cross preaches old-time religion and old-school farm practices.

Counting sheep doesn’t hurt, but it doesn’t really help, either.

Robust and kindly, and sporting a bearish, wooly coat not unlike the flocks they devotedly guarded, the Old English Sheepdog once upon a time ruled the rolling hills and pastures of Great Britain.

Deep inside West Virginia, a monster waits.