UCP Episode 006: Chickens, Gardens & Everything Else Grandma Knew and You Don’t – But Can Learn at the Institute of Urban Homesteading

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Jen Pitino

Chickens in the Garden by steve p2008

In this modern world, we are in poor supply of the sensibilities and skills of our forefathers. Let’s face it – Grandma and Grandpa had a lot of ‘know-how’ and we are slipping into a nation of ‘know-nothings’. Not everyone is resigned to accept this disconnection with their heritage. In the past few years, there has been a surge in the number of urban classes and schools teaching city-dwellers how to rediscover traditional skills in the homesteading arts. Class-by-class, learned skill by learned skill, urbanites everywhere are becoming a little more self-sufficient and a lot more self-determining as they learn what their grandparents knew – how to create their own healthy, nutritious food sources and tend their own green spaces capably. Continue reading →

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UCP Episode 005: Cable Cars and Urban Chickens — SF Loves Backyard Hens!

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Jen Pitino

The Golden Gate Bridge at Sunset – by Jen Pitino

San Francisco is, hands down, one of the loveliest, most interesting, charming large cities in the United States. It is world renowned for its playfully pastel painted row homes and cable cars that climb the incredibly steep peaks of this hilly metropolis and provide such beautiful vistas of the bay and city. Continue reading →