Hen Pecked in Missoula

November 15, 2007

...Apologies, for the poultry fixation this past month, but we had to link to this story. It seems Missoula Montana is currently in the midst of a urban chicken controversy. New West Network’s Anne Medley and Jonathan Stumpf profile the dust-up in this video....

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Happy World Car Free Day

Mr. Homegrown

September 22, 2007

Thoughtstylings

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...ride their bikes to school because of all the SUV drivers like you playing chicken with pedestrians to see who can beat each other across the intersection. I could keep ranting, mentioning the things we all know, the childhood asthma rates of our polluted city, the melting polar ice caps and dying polar bears, the 39,000 traffic fatalities on American roads, and all those folks dying in Iraq to supply the oil that feeds your addiction. So perhaps...

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To each hen her own egg

Mrs. Homegrown

March 27, 2013

Animals, Chickens

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...eir eggs yet. Closer surveillance is required! *** And while we’re talking chickens — Update on chicken integration: Regular readers may remember that we had to integrate Handsome, the surviving elder hen from our last flock, with this new flock. This involved many stages, but no violence, thankfully. At first, the new flock shunned Handsome. Handsome, a five-year old Ameraucana, who’d had only us humans for company for months, seemed sad. Then th...

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The Real Injera

Mr. Homegrown

June 27, 2007

Bread, Food

...some of the bite out of that spicy rather hot stew (doro-wote- spicy, hot chicken & hard boiled egg stew ). I remember, once I invited a friend of mine (American of course) for lunch. Served this real doro-wote hot, I mean this was the real deal, real hot. Only I forgot to warn him. I remember his face turned pink & his eyes red, bulged out. O my God, what was I thinking? Well my first culture shock. That was some 27 years ago. Now I do not make...

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