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Little Goats in Cities
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 24, 2011 (Rubeus the cat meets Nigerian Dwarf Baby Meadowsweet last summer) Tuesday’s New York Times has an article on the expansion of miniature dairy goats in urban areas. It is an interesting article, and has some good points – among them it rightly points out that dairy goats are a bigger deal than chickens. That said,…
This is My Farm: From the City to the Country and Back Again
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 20, 2011 What I stand for is what I stand on. – Wendell Berry Note: You’ve got to give the Dervaes’ some credit – their asshattery has inspired a wholel lot of focus on urban sustainable agriculture, homesteading and making a good life in the city! Today is “Urban Homesteading Day” and in its honor, here are…
Ca-Ching!!! Dervaes Cashes in by Owning the Term “Urban Homesteaders”
Posted by Sharon Astyk on February 17, 2011 From The Ineffable Crunchy Chicken: There’s a bit of hub-bub going on on Facebook right now about how the Dervaes family (of Path to Freedom fame) has successfully trademarked the terms “urban homestead” and “urban homesteading” and is forcing Facebook to shut down pages that use the term and sending legal notifications to businesses with…