Clandestine Chickens

Happy New Year to all our readers! With the arrival of winter and the holiday season, we have been super busy getting the last of the garden...

While the winter season has taken an unusually long time to settle upon the urban farm, it is finally here and with it come preparations for...

Arsenic in apple juice? Another egg safety/cruelty scandal? It makes me shudder to think how our fragile food system is being slowly eroded ...

It is commonly accepted advice to not go to the grocery store when you are hungry. Well a few days ago, I realized that one should also not ...

So I may have gotten ahead of myself on the composting front. The worm bins are going so well that I thought I should take it to the next le...

And I thought tomato mania was bad... Today Jeff and I set out to grind and press apples into cider to eventually make hard cider. For his...

So ironic that at one point in time the government viewed keeping backyard chickens as a war time patriotic duty... http://www.treehugger.c...