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Hen Diaries: Tales from a fledgling fowl keeper (Weeks 8,9 & 10)
My husband’s mom is visiting, and she graciously agrees to watch our one-year-old son while my husband and I get some work done. “You only have three chickens today,” she says when I get home at 6:30....
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How’s your garden growing?
We haven’t seen any eggs yet … but we’ve got fruit, lots of fruit! Our garden bounty has been mixed this year. We’ve had plenty of lettuce and expect to be overwhelmed with tomatoes in a few weeks....
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Hen Diaries: Tales from a fledgling fowl keeper (Weeks 11-19)
Sometime in late July, I become smug about chicken keeping. It’s just like everyone said – easy, peasy. Much easier than taking care of our three spoiled cats, and, an absolute breeze compared to...
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Backyard Chickens are It Birds
Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief, is a backyard chicken enthusiast. Her article about her poultry-keeping passion, “The It Bird”, appears in this week’s New Yorker. “Chickens seem to be a...
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Our First Egg!
If you’ve been following the Hen Diaries, you’ve watched our four sweet little chicks turn into garden-devouring hens. Well, today was a big day for our little flock. Emily laid our first egg! I’ll...
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Hen Diaries: Tales from a fledgling fowl keeper (Weeks 20-29)
Emily It’s the first week of October and something is up with Emily. The hens usually wander around the yard together, pecking and scratching, but Emily is hanging out by herself. And she spends a lot...
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How to Share a Chicken (or Two)
Shareable.net published my article about the Eastside Egg Cooperative in Portland, Oregon. It begins: Foster Road in Southeast Portland, Oregon is lined with wrecking yards, auto body shops, gas...
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Hen Diaries: Tales from a fledgling fowl keeper (Update)
Maybe you’re wondering why you haven’t heard about our hens for awhile? Well, they peck and scratch, lay eggs, file into their house at night … it’s not the makings of breaking journalism. But these...
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And Then There Were Three
For those of you who’ve followed New Urban Habitat from the beginning, you know we got four fluffy backyard chicks in May of 2009. I chronicled our early days with them in The Hen Diaries. Raccoons,...
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How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard
Here’s my review of Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates, which appears in the current issue of YES! Magazine. How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard by...
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