Hatching Our Duck Week

“It is through this work of being outdoors, working in the soil, and sharing the experiences, knowledge, and actual fruits of my labor with friends and family that I believe I healed,” Ferraro-Fanning tells Modern Farmer in an email. She and her husband turned their .67-acre property into an urban organic mini-farm they named Axe and Root Homestead and converted the majority of their landscaping from ornamental plants to edible ones. They now grow more than 70 varieti

All of my experience hatching duck eggs led me to ask the question: Will chickens foster eggs from another species and raise them? The answer was, absolutely! I have both female and male ducks. I only have female chickens. My ducks lay daily, and will stop laying to sit on eggs if enough stockpile. Certain breeds of chicken go broody, and will not start laying again until the broodiness wears off or they hatch and raise something. I didn’t know much about hatching duck eggs, but I kne

“I’m trying to push that wild hare gene,” says Eric Shevchenko, while cradling a bunny in one heavily tattooed arm. Instead of dried pellets from the feed store, his 100-plus rabbits – heritage breeds such as Blanc de Hotot, CrÁ¨me d’Argent, and Giant Chinchilla – forage for grasses, apples, pears, fruit branches, and fermented hay. “You can taste the difference in the meat,” insists the 42-year-old, who supplies chefs Thom