Lisa Munniksma

I was the lead writer and the project manager/editor for a team of other writers in compiling this book of 145 award winners for The Manufacturing Institute's STEP Ahead Awards. This is the third year I was involved in this project.

From failing to plan ahead to improperly watering your plants, avoid these 12 common missteps to improve your garden this year.

I worked with the Square Foot Gardening Foundation and Quarto Publishing to bring to life the fourth edition of this beloved gardening text.

Food insecurity is rising at an alarming rate. In the capital city of Kentucky, requests for food assistance more than doubled between 2021 and 2023. Couple this with with rapid grocery inflation, and the Emergency Community Food Pantry of Franklin County is in need of significant community support. This video was designed as a companion to a fundraising campaign that I contributed to.

Hobby Farms Presents: Growing Good is a twice-monthly podcast about small-scale farmers who are also working in the food system. I interview folks involved with building a local fibershed, introducing kids to farming, dismantling stereotypes, educating others and opening new market opportunities for more small-scale food producers.

The next time you open a bag of horse feed, examine what’s inside. It was the job of an equine nutritionist to study what a horse needs to stay healthy and then to figure out how to provide a balanced diet.

Follow this professional advice for how to transplant a tree. In this article, you’ll learn about tree transplanting from start to finish.

Kevin Espiritu's new book, Epic Homesteading, instructs readers how to build a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot—or anywhere they may be living. I was contributing editor for this 2024 release.

There’s hardly a city, town, or suburb that doesn’t include a subdivision or shopping complex named after the farm that once stood there. Protecting open space is an imperative for all land owners. This article talks about conservation easements with private land trusts as one way to do that.

This video, produced for the University of Kentucky Community and Leadership Development Extension Department, highlights the work of Dr. Julie Zimmerman, of the Department of Community and Leadership Development and the Department of Sociology.

Learn what it takes to be involved with marketing in an equine business.

This is one of the first personal essays I've had published, showcasing the creative-nonfiction nature essays I've been working on thanks to a Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant.

I take the other side of the desk in this interview with Holly and Chrisie on the Coffee with the Chicken Ladies podcast. We talk about the Hobby Farms Presents Growing Good Podcast, food systems, the state of small farming, giant chickens in Belgium and more.