Things are fowl these days in San Marino...yep, fowl: One of the nation's wealthiest communities is looking into making it legal for residents to keep chickens at home.
If approved, San Marino would join neighboring communities like Pasadena, South Pasadena, and La Cañada Flintridge in allowing residents to keep chickens on their residential property.
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San Marino Hatching Plan to Legalize Yard Chickens
Need A Chicken Sitter? Easy Acres Has Your Back
It's hard to be an urban homesteader on the go. Any neighbor can water your sustainable garden when you're out of town, but who is going to watch the chickens? That question is popping up for urban farmers from Culver City to Monrovia, and they're turning to the services of a new fixture on the local farming scene: Easy Acres Chicken Sitting.
Chicken-Eating Bear Ravages La Cañada Coop
Reports of a bear sighting last Thursday in La Cañada Flintridge have been linked to a 911 call from a woman whose backyard chicken coop was raided by the bear. Four chickens were found dead.
Garden Plotting: Cool Kid Orren Fox
Some of us were cool kids. Some. Me? No, except to my dungeon master a la Patton Oswalt. Oh god, junior high? Painful. Yes, most of us were not anywhere near the cool table. Few of us had anything figured out in our tweenish awkwardness, let alone sustainable agriculture systems and our "food shed." College was when we are supposed to "get it together?" So when this food justice-y, dahlia growing, school garden building writer finds a together, future farmer who's barely in high school, I am both humbled in awe and inspired with hope (the planet, you know, has a few problems and most kids don't have the tools to cope). Enter Orren.
Why Did the Chickens (and Cats, Dogs, and Birds) Cross the Road? Because They Had the Right To!
November's Prop 2 passed, essentially according rights to chickens--a fact pecked upon by 'No on 8' supporters in protest signs and chants in the election aftermath. Well, give a chicken an inch, and the whole animal kingdom is poised to take their mile, thanks to state lawmakers and the be-feathered or be-furred bills that are heading to Sacramento for approval.
Cocks Leave Neighborhood, Residents Have Peace
“Last night was the first night I could open my windows and enjoy my home undisturbed by the roosters,” a neighbor said to the Los Angeles City Animal Cruelty Task Force (ACTF). He lived near or on the 10400 block of Variel Avenue in Chatsworth where someone tipped the ACTF off to an alleged cockfighter.
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