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Chicken revival | City-dwelling poultry lovers have created a growing market

R-G writer Diane Dietz joined our Friendly Neighborhood Farmers social networking website this month. She’s featured mention of our work and the upcoming tour de coop this Saturday in the article. Read on!….

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Chicken revival | City-dwelling poultry lovers have created a growing market

By Diane Dietz
The Register-Guard

Appeared in print: Sunday, Apr 18, [...] [...]

Friendly Neighborhood 2010 'Tour de Coop', May 1, 2-4 PM

Join us for a fun and informative tour of Friendly Neighborhood area chicken coops. Meet a variety of delightful hens and see a variety of coop set-ups. Learn about different chicken breeds and what it takes to be a successful backyard chicken keeper. Meet at the Common Ground Garden, 21st and [...] [...]

New Bee Co-Op Launches in Amazon

Amazon Neighborhood is all abuzz with the activities of a new bee co-op which helps interested persons raise their own bees, assist others to raise bees, or simply own and host their own hive managed by other co-op members.

Co-Op members installed 8 new hives last Saturday in Amazon and two in other areas.  This week [...] [...]

Amazon Bee Co-Op Bee Day, April 10

[ April 10, 2010; 12:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] On April 11th, The newly formed Amazon Bee C0-Op will be installing bees into the 10 new hives members built over the past couple of weeks.  We’ll be starting about 9am and plan to be finished by about 4pm.

Persons interested in helping or just watching are welcome to email:  amazonbees@gmail.com for more information. [...]

Amazon Bee Co-Op?

[ March 18, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Anyone in Amazon interested in working with me to form a neighborhood bee co-op is invited to an informal brainstorming meeting March 18th 5:30pm at McMenamin’s East 19th Street cafe.

The season to make new hives is rapidly approaching, but there’s still time!

Goals I have in mind are:

Increase the number of bee-friendly hives in the neighborhood
Work [...] [...]