You could say that farming is in my blood. My maternal grandparents and great-grandparents were vegetable farmers. I’ve always had a deep connection with nature, having loved animals, getting dirty, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angel Black walks through a large round trellis for the passion fruit vine in her backyard garden in Culver City. Water-hungry ...

The Madison-based Backyard Farms will begin hiring back its full staff in phases, starting in October, after furloughs that began Tuesday. The Kennebec Journal reported the company will not say how ...

In a comparison of differently sized poultry farms, researchers at North Carolina State University found that rates of Salmonella in fecal and environmental samples were more prevalent on larger ...

When animal welfare workers removed four sheep and nearly three dozen ducks and chickens from a Plumstead farm last week, it was like a deja vu for Nikki Thompson. A year ago last month, the chief ...

In its first year of operation, Backyard Farms produced nearly 17 million pounds of hydroponic tomatoes under a single roof in its 24-acre Madison greenhouse. Roughly 35% of those “Backyard Beauties,” ...