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Re: Chickens

Seattle has a famous Chicken Coop tour.
http://www.seattletilth.org/special_events/citychickenstour09

I have them free-ranging in my garden and nursery too. Wonderful critters!
Couldn't live without them. A favorite, 'Old Red' died a couple months ago
and some of my employees cried. 


Thank you for visiting the Farm!
Deidre Finley
www.BigDipperFarm.com



 

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From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doreen Howard
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:53 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: ewells@ballpublishing.com
Subject: [GWL] Chickens

This is from Ellen Wells, who write in this the week's ezine Buzz! from
Green Profit about an emerging trend.
Doreen Howard
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Latest garden retail trend. Chickens. And I'm serious about this. I first
noticed this trend a few months ago when many of my new Twitter followers
(@GPBuzz and @gardenquestion) were all about raising chickens at their
urban/suburban homes. Not dozens of chickens, but just enough to provide a
family with eggs (and eventually meat, I guess). My suspicions were raised
again when I spotted a chicken coop and two hens at Drake's 7 Dees in
Portland.

Leslie Halleck of North Haven Gardens in Dallas is a big advocate of the
chicken trend. She says raising chickens is a natural progression of living
within a sustainable and healthful framework. And apparently most of the
people in her somewhat progressive Dallas neighborhood have coops in their
back yard. 

Chickens aren't something you get into just off the cuff as a retailer.
There's a lot of footwork that must be done, such as learning about zoning
laws and regulations, etc. North Haven doesn't have chickens wandering
around the nursery; they have partnered with someone who does the chicken
sales. What North Haven does offer, however, are classes on raising
chickens, resources for chicken owners, some chicken "hardware" (feed
troughs, waterers, etc.) and branded feed products. Check out the Backyard
Chickens category on Leslie's Grow Lively blog to find out all about her
chicken experiences! Oh, and definitely expect a Chicken Retail 101 article
in an upcoming issue of Green Profit. 

Thoughts on chickens? I want to hear them-e-mail me at
ewells@ballpublishing.com. 
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