Wish I Could Ask Grandma...
The urban farming thing is pretty cool, isn't it? The neighborhood I'm in is sort of urban/wild interface, to a certain extent - there's open space right up the street from us. Right down the hill is the exact opposite: the thronging masses of the San Francisco Bay Area. The notion that a percentage of those thronging masses are taking even a little food production into their own hands is just the greatest idea. It's certainly not a new one - my grandma had a huge garden next to her house, fruit trees, chickens, and every year she'd raise a goose for Christmas. That was in small-town Kansas during the first half of the last century and times were much different, but I like to think she'd completely understand the idea of raising food for the family in any back yard. I sure wish I had her around to ask some questions as I'm taking a few tentative steps into Chicken World.
4/24/10
My husband put the finishing touches on the coop today, and we moved in the first four ladies! We have a Delaware, Australorp, Easter Egger, and a Rhode Island Red in residence now, and two Plymouth Rock chicks that will move in too when they're old enough. So exciting - and I'll be up the hill to the coop often to go see how they're doing.
The urban farming thing is pretty cool, isn't it? The neighborhood I'm in is sort of urban/wild interface, to a certain extent - there's open space right up the street from us. Right down the hill is the exact opposite: the thronging masses of the San Francisco Bay Area. The notion that a percentage of those thronging masses are taking even a little food production into their own hands is just the greatest idea. It's certainly not a new one - my grandma had a huge garden next to her house, fruit trees, chickens, and every year she'd raise a goose for Christmas. That was in small-town Kansas during the first half of the last century and times were much different, but I like to think she'd completely understand the idea of raising food for the family in any back yard. I sure wish I had her around to ask some questions as I'm taking a few tentative steps into Chicken World.
4/24/10
My husband put the finishing touches on the coop today, and we moved in the first four ladies! We have a Delaware, Australorp, Easter Egger, and a Rhode Island Red in residence now, and two Plymouth Rock chicks that will move in too when they're old enough. So exciting - and I'll be up the hill to the coop often to go see how they're doing.
