Articles Index
Bartering on the Small Farm or Homestead
Bartering for what you need with products from your small farm or homestead can be beneficial and great fun, too! Learn what you need to get started trading or bartering goods and services.
How to Use Row Cover
Learn how to use floating row cover to extend the season on your small farm. Learn why to use it - how it also protects against insects and wind - and what kind of row cover to buy for your farm.
Plan a Fall Harvest
It's not too late to start planting new crops for harvest in the fall and early winter. And if you're using season extension methods, the bounty can extend well into the winter months.
How to Make Your Own Farmstead Yogurt
Making your own farmstead yogurt is easy, fun and a great way to use up extra milk and keep it around for longer.
How to Grow Garlic on the Small Farm
Learn everything you need to know to become a garlic farmer on your small farm, growing garlic for hobby, fun or profit.
How to Buy Land for a Homestead or Small Farm
Ready to buy land for your dream homestead, small farm, or hobby farm? Learn how to find the land that is right for you.
What Kind of Small Farm is Right for You
Hobby farm, homestead or business: which small farm type is right for you?
Cooperative Extensions and Other Farmer Resources
Learn about your Cooperative Extension service, USDA grants and programs that may be available to you, and how to connect with resources in your area.
How to Sell Small Farm Products Online
Learn the basics for how to take your small farm to the web and sell products - produce, value-added goods, and anything your farm crates - online.
Garlic - Managing Pests and Diseases
Garlic is a hardy crop, but not immune to pests and diseases. Learn how to prevent, manage and treat the most common of these for a healthy crop.
How to Cure and Clean Garlic
Once you've grown great garlic, learn how to cure and clean it like a pro.
How to Harvest Garlic
Learn the best and most efficient ways to harvest garlic on your small farm, homestead or hobby farm.
How to Manage Growing Garlic
Once you've selected seed, prepared your soil, and planted your cloves or bulbils, learn how to manage your growing garlic on the small farm for the best yields and biggest bulbs.
How to Prepare the Soil for Growing Garlic
Learn how to prepare the soil to grow the biggest, best, most tasty garlic ever on your small farm, homestead or hobby farm.
How to Plant Garlic
Learn how to plant garlic on your small farm, homestead or hobby farm.
How to Select Garlic Seed Stock
Learn how to select the best garlic seed stock and how to grow garlic from bulbs or bulbils.
Jim Capellini
Bio of About.com Small Farms guest author Jim Capellini.
Benefits and Uses of Dandelion
Learn the benefits and uses of dandelion, a weed that you can wild harvest or grow on your own small farm, homestead or hobby farm.
Warming Recipes for Winter
Winter can be chilly, but these recipes will use up stored vegetables and keep you toasty warm.
Benefits of Honey and Honey Recipes
Started keeping your own honeybees? Here are some benefits of honey as well as some yummy recipes and ideas for using it.
Benefits and Uses of Kale
Learn how to use kale and how it benefits your health - great for anyone who grows kale on the small farm, homestead or hobby farm.
Beets - Benefits and Recipes
Beets are easy to grow and have a long growing season - perfect for the small farmer, homesteader or hobby farmer. And you can't beat (ha!) their health benefits.
Spring Recipes - Garlic Scapes and Asparagus
Spring is the perfect time for harvesting, selling and eating garlic scapes and asparagus. Learn how to prepare them and share recipes with your customers at the farmers market.
Tamara Flanders
Bio for Tamara Flanders, guest author for About.com Small Farms.
How to Make Goat Cheese
Learn several easy recipes to turn fresh goat milk into delicious farmstead goat cheese - a perfect value-added product for the small farmer.