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Relavant Reading

Hey Yall,

I found an encouraging article on the Ubran Hen's website, everyone should read it for moral support. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/12/urban-chicken-keeping.php

Pyatt Studio

This is one of Rob's new projects. His architecture class will be joining us in the field on Sunday.  

Agnes Denes

I went over a few of the artist on the Research List and came across Agnes Denes.  Her work seems relevant to the class right now, you all should check out her urban/city prairie and the sites she chooses to use.  Heres the Linky and enjoy : )

Sundays Agenda

9:30 AM Meet at school

1st stop -Urban Hen Location 900 69th St.

2nd stop-horse pasture  Baseline and 76th st.  (pasture is right before 76th st.)

(not sure if we wanted to do this on sunday)

3rd stop-Nevin Platt Middle School  6096 Baseline

4th stop-Cherryvale Rd. and Baseline (looks like there are several spots within intersection)

5th stop-4685 Baseline Rd.  (Retirement Home)

6th stop-Church Garden 3700 Baseline Rd.  

(you can go to their website to check out the garden, FYI they also work with a boy scout troop)

I will print out maps a directions for Wed. class

Backyard Chicken Coops

This website about backyard chickens has many references as well as educational info.

Here is another link to small scale coops

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Another Link from an article in News Week

City Coops

I came across this website about city chicken livin'  

The City Chicken

Urban Hens

Above is a research image from the craftmonkey photo archive.  Keep it in mind for this semester's project, and please add more design ideas frequently.  

One of our community partners for this semester will be Urban Hens in Boulder.  Here is a link to their website WWW.URBANHENS.ORG

Next week we will take a field trip to their headquarters and see the hens. Bring your muck boots and some work gloves as I have volunteered us to do a few chores around the farm!

MICHAEL POLLAN on Local Foods

Farmer in Chief

This is a nice article recommended by Wynn from the Urban Hens Project.  Click on "Farmer in Chief" to go to the NYtimes.com article. 

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This is a google search, I suggest the second article.

Farming in the sky

Clive mentioned sustainable sky farms in his presentation the other day, and I think it is a relevant for our class. This idea is already on the tables for the Masdar City project and should be considered in all major urban areas. The idea is to localize the production of grown foods so that we can cut down on both land usage and transportation costs. It is projected by 2025 that 60% percent of the worlds population will reside in cities, so unless we figure out a more sustainable solution to farming, we are looking at a lot of problems in our immediate future. Check it out http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sky+farming&btnG=Google+Search&aq=0&oq=sky+farm

Denver Backyard Chicken article

Click  here to listen to the NPR story about chickens.