Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream For Pleasure And Profit

An expert on sustainable architecture and hobby farming discusses the joys of starting a small farm, covering livestock, vegetables, business concerns, lifestyle adjustments, and many other issues. Original.

Carol Ekarius has spent more than 25 years raising cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, mules, donkeys, poultry and fowl. In the process she has become a leading writer on sustainable agriculture and hobby farming, emphasizing practices that are good for environment and the farmer's bottom line. She has become a leading writer on the subject, and is a regular contributor to Hobby Farms magazine. She is also the author of Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit, and co-author of How to Build Animal Housing. She and her husband Ken, live on a 25-acre farm near Colorado Springs.