Filed Under: “urban agriculture”

city chickens, food gardens, and compost, oh my!

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  • 25
  • December
  • 2008

Hens in the Snow

It's been three-quarters of a year since we brought our three chicks home from Livingscape in a shoebox—just nine months since they lived their days and nights under a heat lamp, filling the garage with the ...
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  • 24
  • August
  • 2008

The Egg That Came First

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have an egg. At approximately one seventeen p.m. on Friday, August twenty-second, after days of squatting for no reason, eating everything she could get her beak to, and spending the morning singin' ...
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  • 6
  • August
  • 2008

Chicken Lists

Chicken Delight Squawking and clucking and the clicking of sharp beaks. Flight, especially the reckless kind. Free nitrogen-rich fertilizer. Watching the Girls stalk and eat each others' feathers. Probably not a very ...