Ann Larkin Hansen

Hobby Farms Beef Cattle: Keeping a Small-Scale Herd for Pleasure and Profit, written by Ann Larkin Hansen, serves as an excellent introduction to raising cows for food or simply to graze while mowing and fertilizing the pasture. This colorful guide offers experienced hobby farmers and beginners all of the essential information necessary to purchase and maintain a small herd of beef cattle. While managing her own hobby farm in Wisconsin, Hansen shares...

This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them no matter where on the planet you call home. Author Ann Larkin Hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden, orchard, field, pasture, and woodlot. For every critical turn of the year (12 in all), Hansen provides an at-a-glance to-do list along with tips and a more...

Suggests what to consider in choosing a dog for a pet; then offers advice on how to understand, train, feed, and generally care for this amazing creature.

Describes the housing, feeding, care, and handling of hamsters and gerbils.

Describes the main crops grown in the United States, the soil composition and climate conditions necessary for their growth, the development of hybrids, and the importance of caring for the land.

Introduces various kinds of agricultural machinery, describes some of their major parts, and explains how these machines are used on the farm.

Discusses what farmers do and how their work has changed and continues to change over the years.

Describes some of the kinds of birds that make good pets and provides information on how to feed, house, care for, and train them.