But the rise of “lifestyle,” or hobby, farms–typically about 30 acres ... Dude farmers, says Carol Ekarius, author of Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit, ...

Erin Sewell, owner of Dusty Goat Farm Living Foods, was homeschooling her daughter during the COVID-19 lockdowns when her hobby of growing microgreens for her family began to turn into something ...

Nearly 300,000 new farms began production since the last census in 2002, and they tended to have fewer acres, lower sales and younger operators who also work off-farm, said Ginger Harris, a ...

Peacocks, swans, donkeys and a descendant of the famous race horse, Secretariat. They can all be found living on one farm in Hermon. Joy Hollowell takes us on a tour of Maple Crest Farm. "We ...

Now, 38 years later, that small hobby farm has grown into the Critter Barn. Rottschaffer is the unsuspecting founder who has fallen passionately in love with what she does.

The Top of the Hill Farm near Fairbanks. (Doug Lange) For almost 10 years, June and John Strothenke have been living on their small farm in Interior Alaska, raising goats, rabbits, chickens and cows.

INDIANAPOLIS — Phil Jacobs was just a teenager when his parents bought a scenic Kentucky farm with hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a view of the Ohio River. Decades later, he still spent ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia is for lovers and for hobby farmers, ranking as the 3rd-best U.S. state for casual farming in a study from Lawn Love. The Commonwealth came out on top in Lawn ...

Chan recently put his Prior Lake hobby farm up for sale. ... The main living spaces are covered with wide-planked floors constructed of 100-year-old reclaimed barn wood.