The Urban Garden Project Crazy Chickens!

Well most of you know that we decided to bring chickens into our urban garden project test garden to really see how difficult keeping chickens is on a day to day basis.  We wanted to find out how realistic a backyard flock for every family in suburban America really was.  While we are only 6 [...]

Memorial Day Weekend in The UGP Test Garden

Memorial Day Weekend brought with it 70-80 degree weather….perfect for being out in the garden!  We spent the day tending to the beds, putting the roof on our Square Foot Gardening Chicken Coop, planting some new herbs and tomato’s and the highlight of the weekend was the chickens first journey outside!  The girls absolutely loved [...]

The Urban Garden Project Chickens Have Arrived!

On Thursday, May 7th The Urban Garden Project Chickens arrived!  Six, healthy Buff Orpington chicks spent the first few hours exploring what would become their new home for the next 4 weeks.  For our brooder we used a moving box left over from our move.  I taped up both ends and turned the box on [...]

The Urban Garden Project Chickens

Well it is official!  Here at The Urban Garden Project Test Garden we have selected the breed of chickens that will reside in our new Square Foot Gardening Chicken Coop!  The breed you ask?  We we will get to that later in the post, but I wanted to first point out a great on-line tool [...]