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How to Convert a Chicken Coop into a Duck House
Ducks think chicken coops make fine homes, but they would prefer a few modifications before moving in.
The Right Stuff: What to Feed Your Ducks
Due to limited demand, you may not find duck feed at a local farm store, but you can buy it online (mazuri.com offers a complete line), or you can adapt unmedicated chicken feed to...
Meet Modern Farmer’s Guest Instagrammer: Soil Scientist Natalie Ross
It was a journey toward healthy living that led Ross, 31, to soil science. As a youngster, she was often sick, suffering from stomach pain, headaches, depression and extreme fatigu...
Of course, there are scads of duck characters in the realm of children's literature, including Dab-Dab the housekeeping duck in the Doctor Dolittle series. The books were written b...
Wait, Is This Weird Duck Kosher Or Not?
A bird so strange that, more than 150 years after Jewish authorities first began discussing it, nobody can decide whether it’s kosher today.
Here are five duck attack videos that will leave you quacking, we mean quaking, with laughter, fear or both.
3 Ways to Build a Hog Wire Trellis
The panels are typically sold in 16-foot lengths at feed stores and range from 34 inches to 50 inches in height. Technically, only the shorter panels are for containing pigs, while...
How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 3: Staking, Training and Pruning
Tomato beds have an unfair reputation as the messiest, ugliest, most disease-ridden parts of a vegetable garden. To keep them from devolving to this sorry state, tomato plants need your care and support.
America’s First Certified Organic E-Cigarette Vaping Liquid Is Here
Does organic matter if we’re talking about nicotine?
