Sue Lani Madsen, an architect and rancher, will write opinion for the Spokesman-Review on an occasional basis. Photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. JESSE TINSLEY jesset@spokesman.com (Jesse Tinsley / ...

A study has found hobby farms put more money into rural communities than conventional farms. Victorian not-for-profit group Agribusiness Gippsland commissioned Melbourne University to do the research.

A hobby farm can provide its owner with hours of enjoyment tending to livestock and harvesting crops. The farm can also create hours of frustration when tax season comes around and it is time to file ...

Alex Zhao who made the move several years ago from Sydney to Sheffield in Tasmania's NW running a restaurant while breeding Dorper sheep answering questions about the pitfalls of being a hobby farmer.

More and more people are practicing farming because they enjoy the outdoors, animals and the fruits of their labor as opposed to farming as a primary source of income. Even though “hobby farming” can ...

BRASILIA, Sept 13 – When farmer Rubens Braz started breeding Brazilian chickens, he had no idea how big the operation – or the birds – would get. Some twenty years later, he now raises giant roosters ...