Listen to more podcasts at MOTHER EARTH NEWS PODCAST. Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Bookstore for more resources that may interest you. Check out the MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR page for an opportunity ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Photo courtesy Jarrod Williams KANSAS CITY, ...

There’s a few things you need to know about chickens when you’re waiting for them to hatch, according to 6-year-old Theron Gough. One, it’s really fun to bang on nails when you’re building a place for ...

About 100 years ago, Lina Mercer’s great-grandmother came to the United States and traded cigarettes for two chickens. Those two chickens eventually became 40,000. Today, Mercer has done her granny ...

Jennifer Johnson wants to raise chickens – a dream she's had for nearly a decade. Still, it took until early February, after a dramatic spike in egg prices, for Johnson to convince her husband to say ...