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Austin Permaculture Guild Website

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:08am
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http://www.austinperm.com/

Come visit Jenny Nazaks Permaculture site for current classes and workshops and lots of wonderful Permacutlure resources.

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Texas A&M Department of Poultry Science

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 9:02am
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http://gallus.tamu.edu/

Folks might find useful information about chickens, poultry breeds, diseases and such here.

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Iduma Bird & Small Animal Auction

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 9:40am
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http://idumasale.com/
phone: 
254-289-3304

Auction begins at 11:00am
  1362 Briggs Road, Killeen, Texas 76549 
Check in time starts at 7:00am

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Backyard Food Production DVD and website

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 10:05am

Check out Marjory Wildcraft's cool website and video.  This is a howto video for producing food and managing water and security in Texas.  It is a great source of information for $25.  Check out a bit more info on my blog

 

Click here to order it directly from Backyard Food Production.

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Austin Code for Animal Enclosures

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:37am
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http://austintexas.gov/health/eh_regulations.htm

Thanks to Paige Hill of Urban Patchwork Neighborhood Farms urbanpatchwork.org for this

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Low or No Care Local Food Plants

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:34am

Here is a great thread from the austinperm listserve.  It includes a list of useful or edible plants that grow well in Austin and require little or no care and feeding.

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Henderson's Handy Dandy Chicken Chart

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:13am
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http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

An Alphabetical List of More than 60 Chicken Breeds With Comparative Information.  Chart includes origins, behaviors, weight etc.

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Bee Hive Removal by Konrad of Round Rock Honey

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 11:07am
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http://www.roundrockhoney.com
phone: 
512-923-1024

Konrad Bouffard of Round Rock Honey, 923-1024 konrad [at] roundrockhoney [dot] com (konrad [at] roundrockhoney [dot] com) might be available to help folks with beehive removal

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Beekeeping School

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 9:00am
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http://www.roundrockhoney.com/index.php?main_page=beekeeping_school&zenid=c539a0...
phone: 
512-828-5416

Round Rock Honey has partnered with the City of Austin and the Austin Nature Center to provide beekeeping classes. Although the class is designed mostly for those with little or no beekeeping knowledge or experience, persons with limited experience are also encouraged to sign up for the class.

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Citizen Gardener

Submitted by Selwyn Polit on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 12:18pm
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http://citizengardener.ning.com/

Citizen Gardener is new program that began in August of 2008, designed to engage more Austin area residents in growing food locally.

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