Urban farm and garden supply store Cluck! features goods and services focused on small-scale food production and backyard animal husbandry. Easy place to find gifts. Seen here are feed sack pillows, $18-$24. They also have DIY cheese kits, metal tinsel ornaments from Mexico, books about mushrooms, paper pigeons, gardening tools, vintage-y chicken prints, log carriers, […]
(3.16) A single hen can lay about five eggs per week. Learn about urban chicken farming at the first Plant Providence workshop of the 2013 growing season next Saturday. Join Dan Sheehan, one of SCLT’s community gardeners, and his hens to learn about what it takes to keep chickens in an urban setting. Dan will
More precisely, 399 Broadway at Courtland Street, where an empty gas station has been gracing the neighborhood for about 10 years. According to the Providence Journal, Drake Patten, executive director of the Steel Yard arts center, wants to convert a vacant gas station into a store that sells garden supplies, yard equipment, beekeeping products, preserving
(3.24) The second workshop of the 2012 season over at Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) focuses on raising chickens at home. SCLT Program Director (and savvy chicken keeper) Leo Pollock will go over all the chicken care basics and different kinds of coops one can use. Workshop cost is $5 and free for members of
Learn how to become a responsible and successful egg wrangler. Last fall the Providence City Council passed a new ordinance allowing city residents to keep up to six hens (depending on the size of the lot). But how to get started? Head over to City Farm this Saturday where the Southside Community Land Trust is
Okay, we have a scheduling conflict here but I see no reason why both events can’t start with a little drinking (see below: Beer Garden). According to the Providence Journal many Providence residents have started raising chickens in their backyards for the fresh eggs and plus they are kind of adorable. But raising any farm