We so appreciate people who are out there doing that paradigm shift groove thing and coming up with great new ideas and innovations! Since we now have new chicks and more chickens and turkeys on the way, we've been reading up on poultry raising and happened onto several great sights with info on making chicken tractors or 'arks', egg-mobiles or this one...and various styles of coops and hen houses.
What's also really wonderful to see is the country life reaching the cities and suburbs with so many ingenious and old-fashioned-made-new-again ideas! One of my absolute favorites in 'suburban homestead style' is Patti Merino...The Garden Girl...who's taken her home in Boston suburbia to all new green levels turning it into her own little farmette in the city. She's produced lots of short video clips on everything from shearing her angora bunny and handspinning the fur into yarn...to 4 season gardening...to a chicken tractor over raised beds...to vertical gardening...to living with small livestock...to much much more...all in her own backyard! Also see her fresh from the garden recipes! She's very upbeat and her enthusiasm and concepts are contagious! I promise you...you'll love her!!
Another great find along these lines are the Poultry People in the UK. The video above is one of their chicken ark designs that you've just got to check out! It honestly can be this simple! They obviously enjoy their chickens, too, with quirky videos on the 'chicken life'...here below Chicken Meets Fox...quite humorous!
Oh and you'll get a kick out of this one, too...
Once you're done with the chuckling...or chu, chuk, chukking...notice how they've actually constructed this one: A triangle with roosts and metal roof. Gotta love that little heart, too!
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