31-Oct-2008
Eketahuna Jewel of the South Pacific
The Dominion Post - Wellington, New Zealand
While she stays at home looking after their small "hobby" farm, Mr McNeil is a builder earning about as much as he did in Auckland. ...

31-Oct-2008
John Deere replicas represent rural life blood of retired farmer
Newton Kansan - Newton, KS, USA
In looking at the John Deere tractors lined up on Clarence Niles’ shelf, the green and yellow replicas are more than a hobby. They are a timeline of Niles’ ...

31-Oct-2008
Impromptu antique tractor pull tests new track
Nova News Now - New Minas, Nova Scotia, Canada
Being an antique tractor fan can be a fairly expensive hobby. The Nova Scotia group, with 65 members, has a clubhouse at the exhibition grounds in Windsor, ...

31-Oct-2008
Rural kids given farm safety message at awareness day
Southland Times - Invercargill, New Zealand
By AMY MILNE - Southland | Saturday, 01 November 2008 Isla Bank and Central Southland Rural Primary Schools took farm safety awareness to a whole new level ...

31-Oct-2008
Still too many farm injuries in Wales
News Wales - Knighton, UK
New statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in Wales show a significant reduction in self-reported work-related illness in Wales for the ...

31-Oct-2008
The case for Proposition 2
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley, CA, USA
Proposition 2 is a simple and sensible measure that would protect farm animal welfare and food safety. It is simple, because all it mandates is that farm ...

31-Oct-2008
Collisions with Deer and Other Animals Spike in November; Fatal ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
State Farm, the nation's largest auto insurer, estimates that there were more than 1.2 million claims for damage in crashes with animals during the last ...

31-Oct-2008
Proposition 2: Standards for confining farm animals
The Spartan Daily - San Jose, CA, USA
2 prevents cruelty to animals, improves health and food safety, supports family farmers and protects the environment. All animals, including those raised ...

30-Oct-2008
Election Guide 2008
Good Times - Santa Cruz, CA, USA
If this proposition passes, the law will simply require that all farm enclosures that house these hens, calves and pigs will provide enough space for the ...

30-Oct-2008
Breeder earns her stripes
The Age - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
In the early years, Alderson said, it was more of a hobby but since buying a property at Bayles, near Kooweerup, five years ago, things have become a bit ...

30-Oct-2008
Great Pumpkins! (and lesser gourds)
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
"We started with a small pumpkin patch in the back and then it evolved," said Patricia Madzin of a hobby that has taken on a life of its own for the couple. ...

30-Oct-2008
Confining Farm Animals the Prop. 2 Way
The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2 has been endorsed by the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for Food Safety, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest because battery ...

30-Oct-2008
Obama's potential green team
guardian.co.uk - UK
The secretary of agriculture oversees food and farm policy, and is charged with everything from securing food safety to promoting agricultural trade to ...

30-Oct-2008
'Safety failings' at farm
The Province - Vancouver, BC, Canada
"We have heard from the families about a lack of safety training on the farm, a lack of material in languages they could understand, and the fear of being ...

30-Oct-2008
Co-workers relive day man buried under grain
Canada.com - Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
... Lorna, fought for the fatality inquiry and continues to press the province to change workplace safety legislation to include farm workers, who currently ...

29-Oct-2008
Horses give Tamworth market a galloping gee-up
The Australian - Sydney, Australia
"The feedback from estate agents is that more and more people are looking to buy rural/residential or hobby farm-type property in the area. ...

29-Oct-2008
William Paul Bandel
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls, MT, USA
Bill's cows were not only his livelihood but also his favorite hobby. He was always able to relate, at length, on each cow's pedigree. ...

29-Oct-2008
They call it puppy love
The Kingston Whig-Standard - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
She runs a recognized private rescue operation out of her hobby farm west of Kingston, near the village of Bath. The mills were among the largest ever ...

29-Oct-2008
As Role Fades, Holding on to Farm Roots
Washington Post - United States
"The tractor is just a medium to help them learn skills about safety, about self-discipline," he said. Navigating the tractor through the course, ...

29-Oct-2008
The more things change the more things stay the same in Snellman
Frazee Vergas Forum - Frazee, MN, USA
Don remembered what the family considered a livelihood for a farm would be considered a hobby farm by today's standards. "In those days people lived off ...

29-Oct-2008
Doctor Koren joins Plymouth General Surgery
Laconia Citizen - Laconia, NH, USA
I am a 20 minute commute to the hospital by foot, and get to have a small hobby farm." Before coming to Speare Memorial Hospital, Dr. Koren worked at Easton ...

29-Oct-2008
MAU founder Bill Hatcher hits his targets
Augusta Chronicle - Augusta, GA, USA
He even operates Shell Bluff Country Store across the highway from his farm. "That's my big hobby. A very expensive hobby," Bill said. ...

29-Oct-2008
Gourd-grower takes her hobby from seed to work of art
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich, CT, USA
Cox, the new president of the Illinois Gourd Society, grows gourds in her Peoria Heights front yard, her neighbor's back yard and at another friend's farm. ...