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A City Chicken Farm A City Chicken Farm is a blog about farming in the city. We have three dogs, six chickens, and more green tomatoes than you can shake a stick at.
We bought our first house in 2007. At the time, there was only one dog in our household. One dog soon grew to three, but it didn't stop there. During the summer of 2009 we welcomed six baby chicks into our home, and the urban chicken farm began. Someday we will sell our old, creaking house and move to a real farm, but until then, we strive to become more self-sufficient and to lead our little neighborhood into a greener future.
We are focused on sustainability, and our friends, relatives, and neighbors are slowly learning by our example that we each have a tremendous impact on our local and global environment. Our composting bins were the first in the neighborhood, and four other neighbors are now composting their yard and kitchen waste. After constructing raised beds for our organic veggie garden in the front yard, several neighbors gathered together to form their own version of a p-patch in a shared backyard. We exchange seeds, plants, vegetables, fruits, remedies, and stories.
An attempt at a more self sufficient and ecological lifestyle. Located in western Massachusetts, my goal is to grow as much of my own food as possible. Musings on gardening as well as preserving the harvest through fermentation, pickling, canning, jams, freezing, drying, and cold cellaring. I am taking my 150 year old home back to its roots while at the same time attempting to live in the present and future.
In addition to growing my own food, I attempt to provide for myself in as many other ways as possible. I have a keen interest in textiles, and always have projects involving spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, crochet, quilting, tatting, and printing fabrics so that I may cloth myself and keep my home warm. I also brew beer and cider and make my own soaps and lotions.
While doing all of this I am trying to keep alive a career as a fine artist and maintain a satisfying social life. Although I work hard, I do attempt to balance my life out with friends. I love a hard day's work, but I also love wasting away hours in a cafe or sipping a hearty beer at my favorite bar with my favorite people as the snow flits down outside.
Heartsease Hollow is a dream in progress. I am a gal in my late 30's who loves her family, feels a strong need to get back to the simpler things in life, and feels a very strong connection to the earth. We make our home in a small town on a tiny plot of ground where we grow heirloom vegetables and herbs, have rabbits and chickens, and try to live as sustainable as possible. I will blog about my family's and my animal's daily antics, about what is going on in the garden-both edibles and , new recipes, food storage & preservation. And about things that I want to learn. These include: candle-making, soap-making, canning, and preparing my own herbal remedies. Along with the other hats I wear on a daily basis, I also wear a black pointed one--I am a very eclectic green witch or what some might call a hedge witch. I find my center in the natural world around me. I feel the magic in a full moon and and hear the wisdom whispered in the wind. My blog will also be about my journey on this path...come on by and see what we're up to...
Urban Homesteaders For urbanites only who have merged off the freeway of life onto a more sustainable path. The community’s mission is to bcommunity together city folks on the path. Urban homesteaders who are taking steps to live a more self sufficient life in regards to their food, energy, water, waste, transportation, lifestyle and more.
:: Community Outline ::
Definition of "Urban": less than or no more than 1/2 acre to 3/4 acre.
Urban Homesteading Lifestyle Guidelines: Doing more with less, growing a sizeable % (at least 50 percent) own produce (fruits, vegetables, herbs), raising citified animals (at least chickens, rabbits), composting, vermicomposting producing own alternative energy, alternative heating, using alternative transportation, back to basics skills (food preservation, soapmaking, sewing, breadmaking, etc), simple living, powecommunity down, unplugged lifestyle, homegrown diet, operating a viable home based business, home-unschooling, energy and waters conservation practices, greywater and rainwater practices and more!
Being the change we wish to see by living the solution on a daily basis.
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