Well, once again we're featured in the newspaper about our lack of urban poultry
http://www.mlive.com/living/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/urban_chicken_farmers_gain_pop.html
However, seeing the renewed interest in chicken keeping and kitchen gardens (thanks Mr. and Mrs. Prez!) we may take...
How funny that you are the 2nd person who referred Michael Pollan's book to me today! and for 2 completely separate reasons.
I really liked the link that was posted earlier in the post to the woman who fought and won the chick ordinance in so. portland...I think I may use a similar tactic.
I actually submitted several pages of cities in MI and around the country, and included variations of ordinance wording, excluding roosters, including a license fee, etc etc, to help them out. I don't think they even looked at it.
The really crappy thing is that the majority of city council...
Hi, my name is Lori and I'm a chicken addict. It's been about 1 1-2 years since my last post.
Back then, I was fighting the stupid local planning commission to keep my huge flock of 4 menacing backyard chicks on 4/10 acre of land in downtown Lowell.
I lost.
The GR Press reporter called...