Posts Tagged With: city chickens
New Handles for Garden Hutch
We recently purchased this garden hutch (to store chicken feed and a case of beer) and decided to add our own little details to it. The hutch came w/ some really industrial hardware for the handles and lock. We decided to soften it w/ our own version with drift wood we found when we camped in Montana … Continue reading
Our First Egg……
Back in May my wife and I purchased 3 little chicks for my daughters birthday. After several months and lots of interesting stories about raising chickens (which I will post on) we received our first egg.
New Chicken Coop
Here is the chicken coop I finally finished hours before our road trip to Quebec, Canada. The chickens hadn’t had a permanent home and since we were not going to be around for 10 days I had to whip something up. I used the “chicken tractor” that we bought for them as chicks as the … Continue reading
Vegan Bits- Animal Cruelty and McDonald’s Eggs 11/18/2011Jane and I have been vegan for over 4 years now. In that time, we've noticed a significant shift in the mindset of the general population. The word "vegan" doesn't always meet with blank stares (0r thoughts of the cosmos). Vegan products are readily available at all our local grocery stores. Veganism is even an [...]Animal Cruelty and […]Lane
- Vegan Baking 10/17/2011There is an article in the Wall St. Journal about vegan baking. The article discusses how a number of vegan bakeries have avoided pointing out that their products are made without the usual baking product - eggs, butter, milk, etc. For fear of alienating the non-vegan public. There are vegan bakeries all over the United [...]Vegan Baking is from Vegan Bits R […]Lane
- Vegetarian Air Time on PBS Cooking Shows 10/14/2011Someone sent me a link to a petition which I think is well worth signing... so I'm putting it out here for all of you to review for yourselves. The request is that PBS ensure that their cooking shows reflect current USDA guidelines which suggest that we concentrate on vegetables and grains and limit meat [...]Vegetarian Air Time on PBS Cooking Shows is […]Lane
- Animal Cruelty and McDonald’s Eggs 11/18/2011