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I’m getting closer to finally checking out my town’s ordinances on pets and whether I can get away with having backyard chickens. More on underground chicken movements here, though the site hasn’t been updated in a while. I wasn’t sold on the idea until I did more reading about the nutrients packed into fresh eggs.Continue reading “Considering Getting a Pet Chicken or Four”

For those of us (with enough space) considering backyard chickens or looking for a cheap easy way to build a coop, Small Farm Today published an article recently about how to build a straw bale chicken house. These are probably not for the urban farmer, but look pretty easy to set up. Article author RonContinue reading “You Can Huff and Puff But Won't Blow These Houses Down”

I have been waiting for Belk to come out with its line of home decor collection designed by Idaho Farmgirl guru MaryJane Butters. The MaryJanesFarm Home collection by Homestead was announced in October and was supposed to be available by this month. But so far, I can’t seem to find the products at Belk.com.

Photographer John Ficara has a beautiful traveling exhibit as part of his “American Black Farmers Project,” which the media, including this piece in the Roanoke Times, is reporting during Black History Month. The series purports to document the demise of black family farmers in the United States. A description of Ficara’s photos, says “Through hisContinue reading “Photos Chronicle 'Demise' of the Black Farmer”

A story in the Capital Press this weekend featured an Oregon family who turned grain silos into contemporary bedrooms for their “country contemporary” bed and breakfast at Abbey Road Farm. The one-time 82-acre horse farm now attracts wine tourists and bicyclists who visit area vineyards near Carlton, which is about 35 miles north of Portland.Continue reading “Farm B&B Goes 'Country Contemporary'”

The Associated Press had this story today about the latest fad for farmers: the Internet. According to interesting, but not-so-groundbreaking piece, more than half (51 percent) of U.S. farms had Internet access by July 2005. That’s up from 48 percent in 2003. Forums are busy with farm talk too. The AP reports that Farm JournalContinue reading “Farmers and the Net”

The family headed to southern Indiana to visit my mother-in-law this weekend and listened to the Feb. 3 edition of Geek.Farm.Life (http://www.three-elms.com/gfl/) on the way down. Loved all the info about making cheese from excess goat’s milk and the teaser about spinning yarn. I’ll be eager to hear more about both, which Farmgirl Misty andContinue reading “Cheese on the Podcast, Ice Everywhere”

The big Farmgirl celebrity gossip is that Bedazzled star Liz Hurley is giving up the glory and glam of Hollywood for the “simple life” of farming. Farmgirl Liz says: “When we get our organic status we’re going to farm properly and we’re going to have a heard of cows and proper sheep and proper chickens,Continue reading “Extra! Extra! Hollywood Goes Farmgirl”

After buying the most flavorless tomatoes I’ve ever seen at the local grocery this week, I fully appreciated this story in the Indianapolis Star about where to find fresh veggies, meat and other farmers market items mid-winter. The story features Zionsville, Ind., small grass-fed dairy Traders Point Creamery. The dairy hosts several vendors every SaturdayContinue reading “Finding Fresh in February”

I was looking through my first issue of Ornamentals & Edibles and came across Wisconsin tree-Farmgirl Caron Wenzel, who wrote a short piece [Not Online] about the curious-looking root veggie celeriac. I’m anxious to try one (or both) of the recipes the magazine printed the magazine, especially the Celeriac and Bacon Chowder.