By Kim Carr: Why not start from the very beginning? Read the first installments of Kim Carr's Beyond the Farm series here. As my friend Barb and I continued ...

By Kim Carr: During the winter, I feed a little less than 1/2 scoop of grain per head to my cows so that they will all come up at one time. I can do a head c...

By Roger Desmarais: There is a lovely wisdom contained in old phrases about life created by the elderly who have lived much of their lives and found much to ...

By Kim Carr: Catch up with Part 1 of the series here! I was on my third full day of vacation when my friend Barb and I packed a cooler with fresh fruit from ...

By Kim Carr: For a Mid-Missouri farm girl, it’s hard to believe that this time last week, I was trying to catch my breath as I attempted to climb a mountain....

By Tim Murphy: Last week, my buddy Al and I were talking about the prejudices that we learned growing up. I grew up on the South side of Chicago, he grew up ...

By Kim Carr: This morning’s meeting of the hens was called to order at 6:45 a.m. All the New Hampshire hens from the yard gang were present and accounted for...

By Kim Carr: Having grown up in St. Louis, it was a real treat for my brother and I when our mother dropped us off at our grandparents the summer of 1973. My...

By Kim Carr: Hello, Kim Carr here . . . Just a little intro, I am a small farmer, photographer, and published author. Having been raised in the suburbs of St...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Sometimes you just get lucky—even when it's a hotter-than-the-hinges-of-hell type of day and you're strolling through an Arts Fair in th...

by Elizabeth Gracen: Welcome to the first in a series of informative articles that feature everyday people doing amazing things to make the world a better pl...

Let us consider our beloved pets and animals. What do you need to know about preparing for the unexpected when it comes to these prized members of our family...

by Jessie Kersh: The senses are a powerful player in the game of human design. They drive us in ways we only think we understand. In today’s world, the sense...

by Darcy Liddell: Okay, it's Spider Season back here at the ranch in Les Trois-Moutiers, and I spent a lot of time decorating the kitchen for Halloween with...

by Carmel MacPherson A few weeks ago my son, Callum, rang me to tell me that their beloved Aussie bulldog, Bella, had just been diagnosed with cancer and was...