Chicken Log-August 2010

by admin on August 14, 2010

Beetles for the Girls

This is the time of year when those crazy beetles fly haphazardly around the garden.  They are very easy to catch and it is a natural source of protein for the ladies of the coop.  We urban farmers stand in as the leader of the flock, in that they are a bunch of spinsters with no rooster on the grounds, and bring them all kinds of garden treats.

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Parkway Trees

August 4, 2010

The parkway has several pepper trees in an avenue style planting in desperate need of attention.  Some leaning on the fence, some diseased, some just need a little cleaning up.  Nursery stakes are now being removed as they no longer serve any positive purpose…quite the opposite.  Cleaned up and fertilized – these trees will be [...]

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Drought Tolerant Parkway Project

August 2, 2010

Long Beach Community Action Partnership is launching the second phase of the Green Jobs-Green Initiatives project with drought tolerant demonstration gardens and small scale row farming for the hungry.  The first task is to update the landscaping on the perimeter of the campus and parking lot.  The interns are receiving instruction on topics such as: [...]

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Green Lab Update-Cinco de Mayo

May 8, 2010

Hughes Goes Green visited the Green Lab today for their after-school Green Team field trip.  We set up three stations:  Dr. Taylor, an ornithologist, was stationed in the coop to talk about and observe the baby chicks.  Cathy P, Green Team Leader ran the hyper-tufa table as the kids made garden containers out of portland [...]

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Chicks Day One

May 4, 2010

Check out upper right hand corner…the Buff Laced Polish looks like a 5th Avenue Socialite getting ready to do some shopping on the Upper East Side!!

Kim of Mrs. Doolittle’s thought Topaz might act as a surrogate.  The chicks immediately wanted to be under her.  She immediately hid behind Kim.

This little lady in the dish was [...]

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Drought Tolerant Parkway Project

April 21, 2010

Long Beach Community Action Partners and their Green Lab Urban Farm along with local experts are preparing to launch our Native and Drought tolerant installation out at the LBCAP Campus with our Green Jobs Interns.  In order to educate ourselves, we attended a walk and talk Saturday April 17th the Rancho Los Alamitos with renowned [...]

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Hawk!

April 8, 2010

I finally saw our hawk!  I think it might be a young raptor, maybe a Cooper’s Hawk.  Small, light tan with white specks.  He was amazingly beautiful, and I think really has helped with our above ground gophers.  I’ll try to get some photos…he flew off right when I got the camera out.  Best time [...]

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Strawberry Wall!

April 3, 2010
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Berry dilemmas-Strawberries laying in the dirt, big ugly humps of plastic, straw turning in to grass…terra cotta pots drying out too quickly…here is an experimental wall o’ berries!  We have created a 4 tier 10′ x  12 inch deep planter.  40 feet of berries in a 10′ x 2′ foot print.  I think it will [...]

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First School Field Trip

April 2, 2010

Los Cerritos Elementary Roots & Shoots service club, and the Hughes Goes Green service club, joined us in the garden yesterday for an afternoon of art, worms, chickens, & vegetables.  It was great fun!  Big huge thanks to Lisa for giving the vermi-posting lesson, Dramatic Results for sharing those drills, and Cathy from Hughes Goes [...]

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It’s finally time for chicks!

March 27, 2010

I just ordered one day old baby chicks.  All female, all layers, several different breeds!  They will arrive on May 4th, which gives me some time to prepare the nursery.  Lots of chicken research going on…Here are a few pictures of what we have coming!!
Black Australorp
Black Giant
Buff Orpington
Buttercup
Phoenix
White Rock
Golden Campines
In [...]

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