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	<title>Urban Farm Hub &#187; In Your Backyard</title>
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		<title>Cosmopolitan Hen: Sizing up the Competition at the Fair</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/09/cosmopolitan-hen-sizing-up-the-competition-at-the-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year we celebrate our anniversary with a trip to the Evergreen State Fair. I know, terribly romantic! Still, nothing makes me smile like baby piglets, stroking the mane of a Clydesdale, or watching the pygmy goat kids play.
But what about the chickens?

It&#8217;s lots of fun to walk through the poultry and waterfowl barn. The roosters [...]


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		<title>Seattle PARK(ing) Day Spaces Celebrate Urban Agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Knudsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARK(ing) Day is a worldwide event where artists, activists, and citizens convert cement-covered metered parking spots into lush, temporary public parks filled with potted plants, art galleries, and other fun spaces for people to enjoy. This year the festivities will occur next Friday, September 17.
Though participants come up with a variety of creative ideas for [...]


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		<title>Dirt Provides Garden Variety Therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Knudsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the gloomy weather hits Seattle for its semi-permanent stay, it&#8217;s difficult not to let it affect your mood. The chilling drizzle and overcast conditions can drive one to take refuge indoors and try to stave off the blues with refills of hot cocoa for at least eight months.
However, that may not be the best [...]


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		<title>Bring Back Those Heirloom Veggies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times, here&#8217;s news about a movement in seed saving.  Do you save seeds?  Which ones have worked and which ones have you planted only to find they were totally different from what you expected?
Seed catalogs are what sustain most gardeners in the pit of winter, the pictures of bright blooms and fleshy [...]


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		<title>Growings On at the Danny Woo Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We have a new flock of chickens and they are amazing at composting garden waste,&#8221; said gardener Jonathan Chen as he looked at the new coop at the Danny Woo community garden. &#8221;The other day there was a grandmother here with her grandaughter.  She picked some grass and showed the little one how to feed the birds.  This garden is [...]


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		<title>Urban Foraging: A Look at the Deep Connections Between People and Ecosystems in Seattle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you fancy a little wild fennel? Pluck juicy berries from nearby shrubs? Gather fallen figs, apples, plums, walnuts and chestnuts? Harvest stinging nettles, dandelion, chickweed, watercress or other edible greens? Use Oregon grape or woodland fungi to dye textile fibers? If so, then you just might be an “urban forager.”
Foraging is a deeply interactive [...]


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		<title>Urban Farm Hub&#8217;s First Sponsor: Kippen House Chicken Coops</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/09/sponsor-kippen-house-garden-roof-chicken-coops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Knudsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Urban Farm Hub would like to announce and thank our very first sponsor: Kippen House!  Kippen House chicken coops were designed with the urban farmer in mind. They are stylish, efficient and multi-functional.
Traci, founder and owner of Kippen House, started designing a chicken coop for her own family to use while she was living in [...]


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		<title>Creating an Urban Farm Community</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/08/creating-an-urban-farm-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When reading some of my posts from a couple months ago, you might have picked up on the fact that I was getting a bit tired.  The truth is that the combination of garden, farm animals, children and work were about to do me in, and something needed to change.  Happily, things have changed and neighbors are [...]


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		<title>FACN Sees Positive Response at Public Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/08/facn-sees-positive-response-at-public-hearing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Access]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of local community members organized as the Friends of Atlantic City Nursery (FACN) has been advocating that Seattle Parks and Recreation convert the closed Atlantic City Nursery into the Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands Restoration Project.
The core idea of this project is to transform the existing horticulture buildings into sustainable food-growing facilities [...]


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		<title>Gleaning from the Trees: Community Harvest Update</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/08/gleaning-from-the-trees-community-harvest-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/08/gleaning-from-the-trees-community-harvest-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer pears and apples are the darlings of Lettuce Link’s Community Fruit Tree Harvest. We’re missing the Italian prune plum mania of 2009, but love to harvest and donate nevertheless!
Since 2005, volunteers with Lettuce Link’s Community Fruit Tree Harvest have been harvesting urban fruit. Our volunteers make the harvest happen year after year. Thanks [...]


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