Allstate Insurance recently covered Chicago’s urban chicken trend! Check out the article for a great infographic on regulations for local municipalities.
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19 Mar
Arizona House Votes on Bill to Require Cities to Allow Chickens
Calling it an issue of “economic freedom,” an Arizona House panel voted Tuesday to force cities to allow residents to have poultry.
16 Mar
2014 Classes and Appearances
Interested in taking a class with Home to Roost? Here are my upcoming events. Not able to attend? Contact me for an in-home session.
3/23
Chicago Botanic Garden, Basic Chicken Keeping and Coop Building classes: go to http://www.chicagobotanic.org/education/adulted and search on “chickens”
5/24
Oak Park Conservatory: chicken keeping class: http://www.pdop.org/parks-facilities/oak-park-conservatory/
5/31
Oak Park Conservatory: chicken health class: http://www.pdop.org/parks-facilities/oak-park-conservatory/
Class on keeping your birds healthy, as well as advice on what to do in various scenarios.
I’ll also be offering a chicken health class in July with Angelic Organics Learning Center; date TBD.
8 Mar
Soil in the City Conference, June 29-July 2, 2014
June 29 – July 2, 2014
The theme of this conference is “restoring our available urban land and optimizing local resources, while protecting environmental and human health and enhancing socio-cultural dialogue.” The conference will focus on three themes: (i) Urban Gardening, (ii) Green Infrastructures, and (iii) Greening Brownfields. This conference is for anyone working with planning, designing, constructing, and/or maintaining urban infrastructures and outdoor areas, including engineers, landscape architects, designers, biosolids management leaders, contractors/consultants, developers, builders, city planners, arborists, foresters, urban gardeners, researchers, and educators.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, 160 E Huron St., Chicago, Illinois 60661
Early registration ends April 15
For more information and to links to registration, click here.
7 Mar
Growing Cities Film Screening, Sunday, March 9, 2014
Growing Cities Film Screening & Discussion
Sunday, March 9, 2014 – 3-5pm
West Suburban Temple Har Zion
1040 N Harlem Ave,
River Forest
FREE!
Sunday, March 9, 2014 – 3-5pm
West Suburban Temple Har Zion
1040 N Harlem Ave,
River Forest
FREE!
Reserve tickets at www.eventbrite.com
Please join us for a film screening and discussion of Growing Cities, which chronicles filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette’s road trip to meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop garden, and backyard chicken coop at a time. Join them as they discover that good food isn’t the only crop these urban visionaries are harvesting. They’re producing stronger and more vibrant communities, too.
After the film, two Chicago urban agriculture activists featured in the film will participate in a 30-minute Q&A discussion. They are Harry Rhodes, Executive Director of Growing Home, and Ken Dunn, Founder and Director of The Resource Center and City Farm.
Learn more at: http://www.greencommunityconnections.org/growing-cities/
Learn more about the 29 other films in the One Earth Film Festival: www.oneearthfilmfest.org
5 Mar
Coop-Building Class, March 8, 2014
I’ll be giving a class on coops at the Plainfield Public Library on Sat., 3/8. To register go to http://il.evanced.info/plainfield/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=22534&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2014&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=
This class will cover location, materials, parts of a coop, dimensions, and design considerations.
5 Feb
New Chicks at Belmont Feed and Seed Week of 2-10-2014
Belmont Feed and Seed expects the first order of chicks coming in the week of February 10.
This includes the following breeds:
– Red Stars (Isa Browns)
– Amber Sex Link
– Rhode Island Red
– Buff Orpinton
– Black Australorp
– Barred Rock (Plymouth Rock)
– Silver Laced Wyandotte
– Golden Laced Wyandotte
– Araucana / Ameraucana
24 Jan
Poultry Matchmaking
Button quail hen wanted by handsome button quail cock. Eyes: red-brown, legs: orange, back: brown variegated streaks, bib: black and white, underbelly: slate blue, rust red, white with rust red speckles. Very handsome. Will give all mealworms to the lady.
My button hen passed away 12/30. My male has been calling (even in the middle of the night) for another lady. Anyone have any leads? They’d be appreciated! I’m looking for a mature, egg-laying hen.
Here’s the handsome man with his former lady friend.
1 Nov
Sign up for Basic Backyard Chicken Care, Nov. 9, 2013
November 9, 2013: Basic Backyard Chicken Care
Back for another season, Angelic Organics Learning Center is hosting another chicken-keeping class with Home to Roost. For more information, see the page on the Angelic Organics Learning Center’s website.
4 Oct
Home to Roost in Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader reporter Anne Ford interviewed me a few weeks ago, and the resulting piece can be found here. Thanks for a fun, quirky piece, Anne! The piece will be in the print edition of the Reader on 10/10/2013.
If you’re interested in reading more about the events I referenced in the article, you can find them here:
- My chicken-raising experience and a little more about me
- The beginnings of my chicken biz and a documentary about what I do
- Penny the quail, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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