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Urban Chicken: Planning Commission Approves Test Permit
Urban chickens have their beaks in the suburban door.Modern Survivalism Tenet Number Three
Growing your own food is for everyone, not just people who want “organic” fruit and vegetables.Green Acres Sprout In The City
People in cities and towns across the Front Range, and the nation, are embracing aspects of a lifestyle familiar to people who raise livestock and harvest crops in rural America.Agriburbia Idea Grows In Residential Subdivisions
The owner of a Golden-based real estate design company sees Agriburbia, a concept he's trademarked, as the coming wave for residential development. Its essential design ingredient---blending a rural land use ethic into an urban setting---is the reason he's so pumped up on the idea.The Best With What You’ve Got: Sustainability For City Dwellers
Knutzen is the author, with his wife, Kelly Coyne, of "The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City," a primer for urbanites who want to take a step or two off the grid.Nine Denver Urban Homesteaders Bring Agriculture To The Backyard
Brock said the City Park region of Denver supports about a dozen similar houses. One of them, he said, routinely turns off the electricity in the house for a day. The people who live there make a campfire by rubbing sticks together, then hang out in the yard beside it.Unlikely Farmers Make A Homestead In The Hood
Novella Carpenter, attracted to a rural lifestyle but not rural solitude, sets out to raise food — everything from pumpkins to pigs — in the ghetto. Her very funny account in Farm Cityis never preachy, yet inspires.Books:
The Backyard HomesteadPut your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it’s done. And when the harvest is in, you’ll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor. From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts | |
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