Weeding out young thistles by hand and applying herbicides at the right time of year are most effective for getting rid of ...

Neal Ratzlaff helped start the Audubon Society of Omaha’s annual bird seed sale about 40 years ago and has been one of its best customers ever since. He buys more than 20 bags of food every year ...

ROCHESTER — Collins Feed & Seed will soon close its doors in Rochester, but not forever as the 79-year-old Rochester business cross-pollinates with the new Hope Farms opening in Oronoco.

Sensor doesn’t capture all visiting birds. Seed reservoir is hard to fill. Rooftop solar panel needs lots of sun and started to lift after four months outside. Picture IT: you just bought a ...

As such, spring is one of the most important times of year to keep birds fed in your garden with extra feed and seed on bird tables and in feeders. But one of the biggest problems with feeding ...

Goldfinches also love nyjer (thistle) seed. Most large hardware stores, as well as having a variety of bird feeders, will also sell nyjer socks that can be refilled with the tiny black seeds. Large ...

Haugh said the garden collects five varieties of bird seed: wild bird seed, which he said serves many species, thistle, which serves a variety of finches, black oil sunflower seeds, which ...

Richard Cole, of greater Atlanta, noticed that much of the seed he and his wife, Nancy, put in feeders went to waste because the birds tossed it onto the ground. He started experimenting with what ...

Dear Heloise: Reading the “Meatloaf Like Mama’s” letter really made me want to write you. To remind people of the letter, the reader has four boys/men, and she makes a great meatloaf. So ...

Feeding garden birds is an enjoyable pastime for many, but one drawback can be that spilled bird seed begins to grow and create a blanket of weeds below your feeder. To combat this, many companies now ...

Since arriving on a Texas dairy farm nearly a year ago, bird flu has caused havoc in the farming industry, leading to millions of dead birds and thousands of sick cows. More than 65 people have ...