Home to Roost Helping city folks raise chickens!

The Village of Riverside is considering bees and chickens this Thursday.  A showing of support could help.

Come to the meeting on Thursday, July 21, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 4 of the Township Hall, 27 Riverside Road.  

Come for the bluegrass, enjoy the homesteading classes, do some yoga, enjoy the bodywork!

Join me at Stonehouse Farm, 3719 Suydam Road, in Paw Paw, IL.

I’m speaking on Saturday, July 2, at 10 and 3.

For tickets and more information, go to the Eventbrite site.

It’s not just for dogs and cats anymore.

Check out this cute collection of pix.

Michigan removed the protection of the Right to Farm Act, which had prevented banning of small-scale livestock in urban and suburban areas. For more information, check out this article. 

The ruling will allow local governments to arbitrarily ban goats, chickens and beehives on any property where there are 13 homes within one eighth mile or a residence within 250 feet of the property, according to Michigan Public Radio.

I love this funny, quirky, crazy story about a guy and his chicken! Much better than being stranded on an island with a volleyball!

Bill Gates believes that chickens are a viable solution to poverty. I’d tend to agree with him! Perhaps he needs a multilingual, well-traveled chicken consultant?

Read Gates’s original blog post here.

Apparently chickens enjoying riding on Roombas – or at least this one did!

A few months ago, I provided chicken wrangling for an indie file called Chicken Tuesdays! Chicken owner Tim Norris and I taught the actors how to hold the birds, kept them happy and well fed, and positioned them on set for shooting.

Thanks to writer/director Brandon Daley, producer Ben Gojer, and the actors and personnel in these pics (Wyatt Fair, Breanne Ward, Brian Knall, Dan Daley, Spencer Parsons, Drew Angle).

It was a fun – and crazy – day!

For those of you who missed the live radio program, check out the online clip here! A lovely experience with WGN’s Steve Bertrand!