Chickens – you know you want some!
With a face like this, what’s not to love!?
Come join this new crazy urban trend! Get the scoop at the Backyard Chicken Basics Workshop on March 12! Check out the webpage for more information and to sign up!
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13 Feb
April 16, 2011: Home to Roost at Green Metropolis
Celebrate Earth Month!
Home to Roost will attend the Green Metropolis Fair at the Irish-American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox, Chicago, IL, from 10 AM to 6 PM.
Come join this fun event with lots of great activities for kids and adults and learn about sustainable living!
The Green Metropolis page will keep you posted on events and vendors.
13 Feb
March 19, 2011: Home to Roost at Family Farmed Good Food Expo
Join Us for the Midwest’s Premier Good Food Event
March 17 – 19, 2011 UIC Forum — University of Illinois at Chicago
Good Food, Good Know-How, Good Fun: FamilyFarmed EXPO is a three-day conference, trade show, and food festival for farmers, businesses, the trade, individuals, and families.
Home to Roost will take part in a panel on Saturday, March 19, 2 PM – 3:15:
No Yolk! Chickens in Your Back Yard
Enjoy fresh eggs everyday by raising chickens in your own backyard. Sarah Elizabeth Ippel from the Academy for Global Citizenship will be the moderator of the panel:
- Martha Boyd, Program Director, Urban Initiative, Angelic Organics Learning Center
- John Emrich, Backyard Chicken Run
- Jennifer Murtoff, Urban Chicken Consultant
For other events, see the Family Farmed Expo website.
2 Feb
March 12, 2011: Backyard Chicken Basics Workshop with Home to Roost
It’s that time again!
Come join Angelic Organics and Home to Roost for a class on raising chickens!
Basic Backyard Chicken Care
March 12, 2011 10:00am – 1:00pm
Farm fresh eggs from your own back yard?
YES!
Please join us for a workshop on best practices for Basic Backyard Chicken Care in Chicago and surrounding communities.
Raising chickens as pets and for eggs is LEGAL in Chicago – and part of our growing local food and urban agriculture scene.
Keep yourself, your chickens, AND your neighbors happy – from daily needs and year-round care to relevant city regulations.
Our instructor is the informative and engaging Jen Murtoff of Home to Roost Urban Chicken Consulting.
You will leave the workshop with the knowledge, recommendations, and resources you need for your own home flock – and you’ll make connections with other chicken enthusiasts in Chicago.
For more info, visit our Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts Google site, moderated by Learning Center staff.
For more information about the Learning Center’s registration & refund policies – click here. If the workshop fee presents a barrier to your participation, please inquire about limited work-exchange scholarships. For Chicago workshops, contact chicago@learngrowconnect.org.
Actual costs of workshops are close to double our workshop fees. If you are able, please consider making an additional donation to help cover the full cost of your workshop.
Price: $35.00
Location:
Angelic Organics Learning Center
6400 S Kimbark Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 US
First Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Go to the Angelic Organics site page to register.
28 Jan
Home to Roost at Whittier Elementary School, April 19-20, 2011
Home to Roost will be visiting Whittier Elementary School in Oak Park on April 19-20 for a two-day education series on food, sponsored by the Whittier Green Team.
We’ll be talking about the differences between home-raised meat and eggs and battery-cage meat and eggs, and the kids will be quizzed on what they learned!
The event is only open to Whittier Elementary School students.
28 Jan
Home to Roost at 29th Ward Block Club Convention, Feb. 12, 2011
Join the chickens and me (and Seamus Ford of RootRiot-Harambee Garden) at the 29th Ward Block Club Convention!
Date: Feb. 12, 2011
Time: 10 AM to 3 PM
Place: Chicago Laborers’ Training Center, 1900 N. Central (5700 W. Homer)
The event serves as a resource and services expo for residents, groups, and block clubs. It will allow them all to become familiar with what exactly different city and state departments offer, as well as educate them on how to improve the quality of life in their homes and their neighborhoods (i.e. beautifying the blocks by planting trees and flowers; creating a garden; recycling, etc.).
8 Jan
Garfield Park Conservatory Chicken Talk, Jan. 26, 2011
Home to Roost will be attending this event at the Garfield Park Conservatory!
Come out to learn more about chickens!
Keeping Chickens in Chicago, Wednesday, January 26
Hours: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Jensen Room, Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, IL 60624-1996
Cost: $5 suggested donation
January is a great time to plan inspirational projects for the year – there’s no better way to turn over a new leaf than to explore the age old question of chickens, eggs, and Chicago. Curious about Chicago’s chicken codes? Wondering what kinds of chickens are the best to keep in a coop? Want to know how chickens keep warm in the winter? These questions and more will be answered at this “chicken chat,” presented by chicken keeper Jim Lichon. Please register by emailing Robin Cline at rcline@garfieldpark.org.
The hens tooling around the yard
3 Nov
Urban Chickens Featured at Green Festival, San Francisco
The San Francisco Green Festival, the nation’s largest sustainability event, is featuring urban chickens on its program. If anyone is heading out to San Francisco for Nov. 6 and 7, here is the link. One of the featured exhibitors is the Nomad Chicken Pad. Cute! Personally, I’d prefer to see more free-ranging space under this chicken tractor. Perhaps the Nomad Chicken Pad has an extendable version?
Nomad Chicken Pad
As you”ll recall, Home to Roost was featured on a chicken panel at Chicago’s Green Fest on Navy Pier earlier this year: Home to Roost at Navy Pier’s Green Fest.
28 Oct
10/30 Home to Roost Speaking at HalloweeM 2010
I’ll be at the Chicagoland Mensa group’s HalloweeM event on 10/30 at 12:30. For more information, see the Mensa site.
I’ll cover the basics of backyard hens and will bring along 2 feathered friends!
16 Oct
Hen-apalooza, Chicago, October 3, 2010
Backyard hens had a chance to meet a number of two-legged mammal critters on October 3, during the Hen-apalooza Coop Tour in Chicago on October 3, 2010.
Encompassing several neighborhoods that have been overtaken by barnyard fowl, the tour, organized by the Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts and Martha Boyd of Angelic Organics Learning Center, offered chicken owners, would-be owners, and the curious public the opportunity to take a peek inside the city’s backyard poultry fad.
Chicago’s chicken keepers and folks as far away as northern Indiana had a chance to swap tips, see new ideas in action, and connect with other chicken keepers. Home to Roost Urban Chicken Consulting presented a short six-point inspection–a quick chicken check-up to assess a bird’s health.
The Chicago Sun-Times deemed the event worthy of coverage, and their scoop on the coop tour is here.
Despite it being a crisp, fall day, the turn-out at the 15 featured coop locations was impressive considering the short time frame from inception to event. The Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts are working on a bigger and better Hen-apalooza for the future! Stay tuned!
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