Looking for Chicken Coop Plans

...s our needs. Please feel free to share this message with any chicken-owners you know. A little bit about me: I’m a writer and chicken owner living in Minnesota. I’m the author of Eat More Vegetables: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Seasonal Produce, The Minnesota Farmers Market Cookbook, and the Moon guides to Minnesota and the Twin Cities. This is my first chicken-related book. Thanks! Tricia Cornell...

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Saturday Linkages: DIY Coffee Roasting and That Crazy Rhubarb Lady

...k.com/the-ten-most-ambitious-failed-utopian-mass-transit-syst-1135019271 … Making a Case to Phase Out “Beg Buttons” in Santa Monica’s Pedestrian Action Plan http://disq.us/8elfzy Meet Streetmix, the Website Where You Can Design Your Own Street » good read http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/08/12/meet-streetmix-the-website-where-you-can-design-your-own-street/ … Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It’s Haunting. http://ww...

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Saturday Linkages: Goats, Chainsaws and a Big Blue Rooster

...ttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lloydkahn/~3/BGY9jmWITPc/bike-trailers.html … 11 things it took me 42 years to learn http://bit.ly/1175KcM See the Documentary “Wonder: The Lives of Anna and Harlan Hubbard” if You Can by Allen Bush http://gardenrant.com/2013/07/see-the-documentary-wonder-the-lives-of-anna-and-harlan-hubbard-if-you-can.html?utm_source=feedly … Crafty Crafting with cat hair: no, I’m not making this up The Redventure Romp Cocktail by Am...

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Los Angeles Permaculture Design Course Certificate Series

...taught by an exciting and engaging teaching crew. I’m hopping to attend myself. Here’s more info: The Los Angeles Permaculture Design Course Certificate Series First weekend of each month for 6 months October 2013 – March 2014 Begins Saturday & Sunday, Oct 5 & 6, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM In and Around Los Angeles A Certificate Course for Design Professionals, Land Managers & Homeowners The Permaculture Design Course has truly transformed the lives and...

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Maintaining a Worm Bin

...ent that Chicken Powered Terror Dome for Worms, I have to sort the worms myself. There are various tricks for this. None are foolproof. I believe I’ve blogged about them before. After trial and error I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just as easy to pick them out by hand as to do anything else. The pyramid system and the like work, but are not any faster. Worm sorting would be most fun with someone else–sort of like shelling peas–but today I l...

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