Let’s face it, during the beginning process of adding meat rabbits to our homestead, I wasn’t the happiest girl in the world. The thought of butchering little animals that I had hand raised as ...

For beginning homesteaders (or even those more established), raising meat rabbits it the perfect first step to take toward raising your own livestock. As natural herbivores, rabbits eat low on the ...

For those looking to build a more self-sufficient life on a small plot of land, finding an efficient and sustainable meat ...

Violet Gichia’s love for rabbits developed quite early in life. When she visited Egerton University as a pupil in class eight, their vast rabbit farm mesmerised her. She bought a few rabbits and began ...

The Gates Foundation funds research on engineering new genetically modified-varieties of staple crops – including rice, sweet potatoes, and bananas – to contain higher amounts of vitamins and ...

Our family always had chickens when I was growing up. When I was off on my own I missed the messy little critters. I wintered a pair in my basement. The rooster would crow 20 times every morning when ...

A rainy winter season has led to an explosion of vegetation in the region, and if we learned anything from the tale of Peter Rabbit, bunnies love to munch. Getting full on the green grasses of Bay ...

She bought a few rabbits and began rearing them at home. The interest would soon fade away while in high school, only to resurface several decades later. "In 2006, I began keeping rabbits again, this ...