Salon.com has a good article about urban farming. Amy Benfer, the article’s author, balances her enthusiam with a frank acknowledgment of some of the problems. (Thanks, BZ!)
How does your city garden grow?
“Not everyone’s experience with urban livestock goes off quite so well: Jennifer in Boise, Idaho, was thrilled when she found out she could keep up to three hens within the city limits (most cities will allow you to keep hens for laying eggs, so long as you don’t have a rooster). But she was less enamored of the “wet, smelly, decaying, bug-attractive area of the yard” that came along with the three Rhode Island Reds she bought off Craigslist. She came around once the birds began producing fresh, perfect eggs — until the whole flock was decimated by a rogue raccoon.”
