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Cracked up!

Spring semester is in swing at June Jordan School for Equity. The favas and mustard planted last year are looking great and we are prepping the beds with compost for our spring plantings. The chickens are thriving in their new coop, and they’ve started laying again! But it’s not all what it’s cracked up to [...]

February 3, 2010   Posted in: chickens, video  One Comment

Eco-Holiday Gift: Adopt a Chicken!

Are you still looking for that perfect Holiday gift? Want something that is meaningful, comes with no packaging and won’t end up in the landfill? Here’s an idea . . . Adopt an Urban Sprouts chicken! Make a gift to Urban Sprouts in honor of a friend or family member. For your gift of $50 [...]

December 20, 2008   Posted in: chickens, fundraising  7 Comments

Omelette, anyone?

I am VERY excited to report that our lovely chickens at June Jordan School for Equity have laid their first eggs! The students have collected almost a dozen eggs by now, since Ms. Sarah’s class found the first one about a week and a half ago. We fried some of the eggs last week, chopped [...]

November 13, 2008   Posted in: chickens, school garden  Comments Closed

Name a Chicken Contest!

The Urban Sprouts chicken coop at June Jordan School for Equity is completed and the lovely hens are doing well! However our hens remain nameless. We are inviting you, our reader, to submit names for the birds. Just submit your suggested names in the comments. At the beginning of the Fall 2008 school year, students [...]

July 16, 2008   Posted in: chickens  3 Comments

Summer Program ’08!

We are having so much fun at the Urban Sprouts and Garden for the Environment Summer Program, now in the middle of our second week. The 21 youth—16 middle school youth and 5 high school youth staff—are working in the garden, cooking lunch from garden-grown produce, and learning all about organic gardening, recycling & composting, [...]

July 9, 2008   Posted in: chickens, food systems, urban garden  One Comment

Urban Sprouts is Starting a Chicken Coop!

Urban Sprouts is starting a chicken coop in collaboration with June Jordan Small School for Equity! The coop is a wonderful way to learn about where eggs come from and how they are produced. It is also a wonderful opportunity to explore chicken diversity, biology and to understand how chickens fit into garden and farm [...]

May 6, 2008   Posted in: chickens, farm, local food, urban garden  2 Comments