Topic: Backyard Poultry

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Stir It Up!
Cookbook review: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

Is it worth it to make your own bread? Let Jennifer Reese be your guide through the trials and triumphs of the homemade life.
Chapter & Verse
Five books to read after checking the egg recall list

Here are five books that help to place the egg recall in context.
Editor's Blog
Backyard chickens: Are they worth the effort?
From junkyard to community garden

A former San Francisco dumping ground becomes a plentiful four-acre urban farm.
Editor's Blog
My part in micro-economics: backyard chickens
Whole lotta clucking going on in cities

More Americans raise chickens in their backyards
Bright Green
Report: Illicit urban chicken movement growing in US

The Worldwatch Institute reports that a growing number of US city-dwellers are raising their own chickens, often in defiance of local ordinances.

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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.

When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.