chickens

Big Surge in Backyard Chicken Raising Reflects Food Security Trend in U.S.

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13...

ONE day Judith Haller was watching television and saw that Martha Stewart had chickens. “I was very envious that she had her own chicken manure,” she recalls. So last year, she got a couple of chickens on behalf of her vegetable garden. They proved to be industrious providers and pleasant companions. Now there are 13 hens pecking around the yard. And Ms Haller has become an advocate for a hot movement: backyard chickens. In April, as part of Austin’s first Funky Chicken Coop Tour, she hosted 637 visitors.

Organic Gardening II Workshop

May 29 2009 - 7:00pm
May 30 2009 - 4:00pm
Etc/GMT-6

Friday, May 29 at COTR 7pm - 9 pm at COTR
Saturday, May 30 at White Spruce Farm 10am - 4pm meet at COTR

Cost $45 per workshop - $225 for the series

This hands on workshop will offer you a better understanding of: healthy soil, making beds, irrigation, seeding, mulching, transplanting, beneficial insects, irrigation, row covers. Also explore urban livestock opportunities with bees, ducks, chickens and more

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