In my constant effort to Walk That Walk, I’ve been preparing to create a small homesteading operation in the ‘burbs of Wheat Ridge. In Wheat Ridge, where we reside across the street from a grammar school and a horse farm, no permit is necessary for small livestock. You can have chickens, rabbits, even goats or [...]
Yesterday I was privileged to attend the Environmental Achievement Awards sponsored by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Above is my fuzzy iPhone pic (from the back of the room) of the Governor’s speech. It was basically a bunch of bureaucrats and corporate types congratulating each other. And this is a beautiful thing. [...]
Welcome to DenverGreenChannel.com! I wanted this web site as a not-for-profit place to profile people in our community who are doing things that make life better for people AND the natural world. People who take it upon themselves-on their own time and on their own dime, for the most part-to pick one thing in the [...]
Denver Urban Homesteading and Denver Botanic Gardens sponsored the chicken coop tour, and it was a blast. Many knowledgeable people were able to educate us as we tromped through their yards and pelted them with questions about keeping chickens. I learned some much-needed information about my chicken set-up and operation.
“We are as Gods and we need to get good at it,”
“We have tons of common ground we can stand on. We can speak to these issues from lots of places that are exciting to all kinds of members of the audience on all sides of the discussion. That’s where we need to be standing,” Brian Welsh
Amy Cotler, author of The Locavore Way… Amy Cotler – How Farms Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
Learn about worms! You can feed your kitchen scraps to your worm farm and they produce worm tailings, another word for rich, wonderful compost straight from the worm! You can find out more here: