Posts Tagged ‘residential area’

admin - STC Village denies chicken ordinance on a 4-3 vote (6/18/2012)

STC Village denies chicken ordinance on a 4-3 vote BY HILLARY GRIGONIS STAFF REPORTER ST. CHARLES – After debate about the agricultural benefit versus a residential area nuisance, the St. Charles Village Council denied a motion to create an ordinance allowing chickens within village limits Wednesday. In May, the Planning Commission recommended the council consider [...]

admin - admin – My Urban Farming Experiment (4/20/2012) (4/22/2012)

Jesse Houston the author gave his fiancée a chicken coop for Christmas. by Jesse HoustonApril 18, 2012I started my first urban garden many years ago when I lived in Austin, Texas. I was attending the Texas Culinary Academy and had just started learning about the farm-to-table and local-food movement. before Austin, I had always believed [...]

admin - The cluck stops here (1/20/2012)

KINGSTON — The great chicken flap has flown its Halifax coop and landed in rural Nova Scotia. Kings County, one of the most intensely farmed areas of the prov­ince, is crying foul over a Kingston-­area man who is raising four roosters and a hen as pets. Alex Loomer has been ticketed by the county for [...]

admin - Luciano: East Peoria man wants to scratch new ground (12/4/2011)

Usually, it gets tiring to hear locals whine with Chicago envy. you know the drill. Little Brother Syndrome. We need to strive to be like a big city. indeed, David Moechnig wants East Peoria to be more like Chicago, but not in an urban way. exactly the opposite. he wants chickens. Backyard chickens. Moechnig has [...]

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