Tag Archives: urban chickens

Local Transition Town visioning session scheduled for February 1

By Mark | January 24, 2010

I’ve written quite a bit here over the last few years on the Transition Town movement. For those not familiar with the initiative, it involves the preparation and certification of towns attempting to address the duel challenges of climate change and peak oil proactively. It basically involves analyzing local food production, energy use, etc, and [...]

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The odds that Council will chicken out

By Mark | July 21, 2009

As most of you probably already know, Ypsi City Council voted 4 to 3 earlier this month to allow the keeping of chickens in downtown Ypsilanti. In order for the legislation to past, however, it has to clear one more hurdle. It has to be voted on by Council a second time. And that vote [...]

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Urban chickens, local trains, and young people on the DDA

By Mark | July 8, 2009

I skipped last night’s Ypsi City Council meeting. I should have gone, but other things got in the way. From what I hear, it was dominated by talk of urban chickens, with significant numbers of both proponents and opponents coming out to let their opinions be known. In the end, it looks like the pro-chicken [...]

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Update on Ypsi urban farming

By Mark | February 8, 2009

According to our friend Brackache, it looks as though local farming rights activist Peter Thomason has lost his court case with the City. Now it looks as though it’s up to City Council, who will be discussing the legalization of urban chickens, goats and bees during their February 17 meeting.
Those interested in getting more [...]

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