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City Chicken Projects
2012 City Chicken Projects
Your donation to the Chicken Scratch Campaign will support coop builds and training for these four communities.
Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger
Bed Stuy Campaign Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization that provides emergency food and other social services to residents of central Brooklyn. BSCAH plans to distribute the eggs raised through their City Chicken Project to the more than 9,000 Brooklyn residents who receive nutritious groceries through their client choice pantry each month.
Cypress Hills Verde!
Cypress Hills Verde! a new project of the Cypress Hills Local Community Development Corporation, seeks to make the Cypress Hills community a greener, healthier, more sustainable place to live for all of its residents. Their chickens will reside in the Development Corporation's brand new community garden.
Community School 211
Community School 211 is a K-8 bilingual school in Tremont, Bronx. Their chickens will live in the school's garden, which is used for nutrition and science education. This summer, they plan to create a garden CSA, where students and families volunteer in the garden and harvest shares of eggs and vegetables.
P.S. 11
P.S. 11: The William T. Harris School is a public elementary school located in the heart of Chelsea. Their chickens will reside in the school's garden, where they will live among the butterfly and shade gardens, composting area, rainbarrels and raised beds. The chickens will be cared for by students and parent volunteers, and incorporated into classroom curricula.
Bronx Guild High School
Bronx teen grows food on mini-farm on plot right next to his high school
9/20/11 in New York Daily News
Brooklyn Rescue Mission Bed-Stuy Farm
Culinary Kids Garden
Urban Garden Teaches Nutrition and Agriculture
10/9/09 in Rockaway's The Wave Newspaper
Fordham Bedford Lot-Busters
Friends of Brook Park
Chickens come to roost in Brook Park
10/04/11 in Mott Haven Herald
Fowl play: Bronx neighbors are staging a coop at urban chicken farms
9/29/11 in New York Daily News
Hatched and Raised in New York City, Chickens Make Their Way to the South Bronx
9/23/11 on WNYC
Garden of Happiness
Chicken Raising Once Again Growing in Popularity
7/6/10 Audio interview on New Hampshire Public Radio
Urban Farming in New York City: The Brooklyn Rescue Mission, Just Food, and the Garden of Happiness
2/14/09 in Hudson and Saratoga Local Foods Blog
New York Local: Eating the Fruits of the Five Boroughs
9/3/07 in The New Yorker Magazine
Underreported: City Chickens (audio & slideshow)
12/21/06 Audio interview with Karen Washington, founder of Garden of Happiness, on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show
Hattie Carthan Community Garden
Mit Radlerhose bei der Brooklyn Chicken Bike Tour (German)
9/11/10 in TwoForFashion Blog
Fresh Eggs a Big Hit in Bed-Stuy (NY1 video)
8/17/10 on NY1
What the Cluck? NYC Chicken Farming (CNN video)
7/30/10 on CNN [CNNMoney.com]
Of Coups and Coops: "Hattie Carthan" Brings Chickens to North Brooklyn
4/24/10 in Our Time Press, local newspaper
John Bowne High School
Pleasant Village Community Garden
St. Augustine's School Garden
St. Augustine School Chicken Project
1/3/10 on the Gurldoggie blog
St. Augustine School Chicken Project
12/14/09 in Change Observer section of the Design Observer Group
11/20/09 in the Indypendent newspaper
11/27/08 on the Gurldoggie blog
Taqwa Community Farm
Urban Agriculture: Shifting From Oasis to Food System Mainstream
8/9/10 in the Gerald R. Dodge Foundation blog
Clucky new trend hits the Bronx
8/3/10 in New York Daily News
4/24/2010 icurecancer.com blog
Backyard Chicken Farming in New York City
4/9/10 in Carnivore's Dilemma blog
3/19/10 in Waterpod Living Systems blog
5/26/09 in The Official Poultry Bookstore Blog
3/18/09 in National Geographic
La Union Garden
La Union Video Feature in BRIC
Click on the 'La Union's Chicken Coop' link within the video box or skip to 5:53 min to watch this piece
Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
in Overlooked New York
Mit Radlerhose bei der Brooklyn Chicken Bike Tour (German)
9/11/10 in TwoForFashion Blog
City Chickens (CBS/WDEF News 12 video)
8/10 on CBS news
What the Cluck?! Backyard Chicken-Keeping Booming in New York City
7/08/10 in WNYC news with audio interview
Chicken Raising Once Again Growing Popularity
7/6/10 in New Hampshire Public Radio with audio
Room with a Coo: Backyard chickens are more than just eggs on legs
Spring 2010, in Edible Brooklyn Magazine
4/17/10 in New York Daily News
3/16/10 in ConcreteFood.com
7/8/2009 in Not Eating Out in New York blog
5/26/09 in The Official Poultry Bookstore Blog
Chicken Tractor Workshop with Just Food(audio)
12/15/08 part of Backyard Chicken Broadcast radio
Listen to Bucky Buckaw talk about chicken tractors and the Walt L. Shamel Community Garden
City Slickers Flocking to Raise Chickens
10/13/08 in Zootoo News
Willis Avenue Garden
Wilton Rock Community Garden
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