Homestead farmingAmrapali, Himsagar or Langra can fruit in a drum on a city roof. Why grafted saplings work, where to put them, what drum and soil they need, how to water, feed, prune and keep pests down, and what a rooftop mango tree gives back once it bears in two to three years.
Homestead farmingYellow, white, red and pink, chrysanthemums bloom generously for little care. Seven steps to growing them in pots, from the pot and soil to water, feed, sun and pruning, and how to arrange them by colour, height and light so a city roof becomes a garden.
Homestead farmingThe share of South African households farming fell from 19.9% in 2011 to 13.8% in 2022, eroding a low-cost food security buffer, while women now head most of the households that still farm.
VegetablesIn Homna, Cumilla, farmer Wali Ullah raises fish in a 16-decimal pond beside his house and grows vegetables on its banks, feeding his family and earning extra income.
Families can raise chickens on little space, labour and money to meet their needs for eggs and meat and earn extra income; guidance on house size, floor litter and sourcing birds for a small farm.
Mohammad Sohel of Bhuapur, Tangail, is harvesting passion fruit, known locally as anarkali, from a trial planting in his courtyard and plans a commercial orchard.
Because it feeds on natural pond food, native puti can be raised cheaply in homestead ponds for the table and extra income; clearing predatory fish and acclimatising fry are the keys.
Homestead farmingAfter wind and a late frost cost her apple harvest, a South Dakota columnist asked a city forester how to choose, plant and protect backyard fruit trees.
Homestead farmingUniversity of Missouri Extension horticulturist David Trinklein explains that garlic, a cool-season crop, is planted in September in well-drained, organic soil and harvested the following July or August.
FisheriesA 24-year-old farmer in Khulna made a profit of Tk 80,214 in one season from a 15-decimal pond using integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, and now trains other farmers, WorldFish reports.
Since 2010 the German town of Andernach has grown fruit and vegetables in its parks and squares for residents to pick free of charge, with 8,000 square metres of vegetables in town, a 13-hectare farm on public land outside it, and 400 tomato varieties in a single year.
Kamal Hossain's orchard on the Kuakata-Misripara road stops passing cars; the Kuakata tour operators' president Ruman Imtiaz Tushar sees farming and tourism meeting, and Kalapara agriculture officer Arafat Hossain says the right variety, soil and water management and organic manure make crops possib
Sangeeth and Kavya of Kerala, India, have turned their home into a closed loop of vegetables, fish and mushroom growing, cows and chickens, dung-fed biogas, rooftop solar and beehives, in which the waste of one system feeds the next.
