By Mark | September 27, 2015
The following interview with Alice Jo Gannon Boss was conducted several months ago, but, for some reason, I’m just now getting around to posting it. Hopefully that fact won’t diminish your excitement over the fact that she’s now one of us… Please join me in welcoming her to the neighborhood, even if it is a […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alice Jo Gannon Boss, Amanda Edmonds, Aubrey Thomason, Bridge Card, Cult Heroes, David Palmer, Del Rio, Destroy All Monsters, food security, food stamps, Growing Hope, hatred of football Saturdays, Joe Star Lounge, Krampus, local food, Peter Thomason, pierogis, Polish food, Regional Career Technical Center, Ron Asheton, Scott Morgan, Second Chance, Shakey Jake, Stefanie Stauffer, urban agriculture, urban chickens, Washtenaw Community College, Zingerman's, Zingerman’s Creamery |
I just received the following note from an angry reader in Ypsi, and, as we haven’t discussed the subject of city chickens in a while, I thought that I’d repost here… His note, as you will soon see, is primarily about roosters, but I’d be curious to know, now that we’ve had the urban chicken […]
By Mark | August 22, 2009
Ypsi’s Heritage Festival is this weekend, and this morning was the big parade. I love parades in Ypsi. They’re insane and beautiful. They’re a little pieces of Libertarian paradise. Anyone who wants in, can get in. Or, at least that’s how it seems to me. One minute, John and Debbie Dingell roll by, and, the […]
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 […]
Posted in entrepreneurism, Observations, Other, Rail, Sustainability, Ypsilanti | Also tagged bad metaphors, Bee Mayhew, bird flu, Brian Robb, catch 22, chicken slaughter capital of Washtenaw County, City Council, Darryl Daniels, Dave Wheeler, DDA, James Marks, Jim Karnopp, John Coleman, John Donegan, Karen Maurer, Linda French, Lois Richardson, Michael Bodary, Move to Ypsi and Have that Extra Chicken that You Deserve, Peter Rinehart, Rene Greff, Robert M. Barnes, Sandee French, Scotty James, slaughter, Trudy Swanson, urban chickens |
On Saturday, April 18, between 6:00 and 9:30 PM, there’s an event taking place at the Spirit of Hope church in Detroit that I wish I could attend. It’s a potluck/workshop run by Austin’s Scott Kellogg, an author of “Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide.” Here’s the event notice: We will start the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Austin, bio-shelters, creating green space, Detroit, EPA, green economy, guerilla bio-remediation, guerrilla gardening, making your own energy, micro-livestock, natural building, permaculture, potluck, radical sustainability, restoring wetlands, Rhizome Collective, RUST: Radical Urban Sustainability Training, Scott Kellogg, Spirit of Hope, Toolbox for Sustainable City Living, workshop |
