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Keeping chickens—even for city dwellers is a trend that just keeps on growing. With this book, today’s modern farmer will find plans and construction techniques for making seven different chicken coops, fun chicke… More >>

Art of the Chicken Coop: A Fun and Essential Guide to Housing Your Peeps

Holiday Gift Guide: Your BFF
Getting a gift for your BFF might be the easiest task on your list. After all, you probably know his or her tastes and wants better than anyone else — and have the cell phone bill to prove it. Besides, isn’t buying for your best friend really like buying for yourself? Shop wisely, and maybe you can borrow the gift. Cheap:  Don’t let your BFF cry away the holidays because her guy won’t up the …

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Holiday Gift Guide: Your kid’s teacher
Let’s be honest. We want the teacher or day care worker to like us best and adore our children most. Some of us are not above bribery when it comes to the people who take care of our kids. Cynicism aside, thanking the people who do a sometimes thankless job is important this time of year. Cheap: We’ve been told by these angels that what they most treasure is a heartfelt note of thanks with …

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ENJOY FRESH EGGS EVERY DAY!! • SHOW YOUR KIDS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO RAISE THEIR OWN FOOD!! • KEEP HAPPY, FREE-RANGING HENS IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD!! BUILD YOUR OWN HAPPY VALLEY HEN HOUSE WITH THESE EASY-TO-FOLLOW PLANS… More >>

Happy Valley Hen House Building Guide: Clear, step-by-step plans that anyone can follow to build their own Happy Valley Hen House chicken coop of tractor

Review of Gail Damerow’s book for the “Facts, Fads, and Phenoms” category of Storytubes contest.

Football-free summer kicks: Your alternative cultural guide for the World Cup month
There was a moment when I thought I might get interested in football. Well, to be honest, there was a moment when I thought I might get interested in Fabio Capello. He was so masterful, so disciplined, so fascinatingly un-Italian. He barely spoke a word of English, but promised hardened hacks that in a month he’d be fluent. Such ambition! Such steel! He was anti-frivolity, anti-fun, anti the …

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Fresh Air or Bust! To stay healthy, your chickens need plenty of ventilation–probably more than they’re getting today. This was discovered over 100 years ago, but has been largely forgotten. Today’s small-flock h… More >>

Fresh-Air Poultry Houses: The Classic Guide to Open-Front Chicken Coops for Healthier Poultry

This is the first in a series of blogs about Minnie Rose Lovgreen’s Recipe for Raising chickens.

Poultry Tribune recently spoke with Nancy Rekow, editor of Minnie Rose Lovgreen’s Recipe for Raisings Chickens – a book about just that, raising (happy) chickens. Originally published in 1975, the book’s third edition is making its debut with additional information on Lovgreen’s life story.

The first two editions sold out, and I have no doubt the third

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