Saturday, April 9, 2011

Amazon: Urban Farm Magazine for $5 (Today Only)

Urban Farm (1-year auto-renewal)

Today only, you can get Urban Farm Magazine for $5 from Amazon (reg $30).  This is through the auto-renewal, but you can cancel the auto part anytime!

Who Reads Urban Farm?
Urban Farm reaches out to those in the city and suburbs who endeavor to live more self-sufficiently, are inspired by the local-food movement and want to raise chickens and other small livestock. They grow food for themselves, support local agriculture and live more sustainably by reducing their impact on the environment.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue: Regular Sections
  • Backyard Coop: Everything a backyard chicken keeper needs to know to have a healthy, well-cared-for flock. Each issue focuses on a different topic of urban chicken keeping.
  • Green Thumb: Seasonal backyard and container-gardening advice, including fruit and vegetable variety selection and cultivation, fertilizer recipes, composting techniques, and useful tools.
  • Urban Feast: Bringing the eat-local mantra home. This column covers seasonal recipes, kitchen tools, serving ideas and more.
  • Curbside Tools: A round-up of tools and equipment related to one feature in every issue. The column topic might be composting tools, wine- and beer-making equipment, chicken-keeping equipment or any other area of sustainable living covered in the magazine.
  • One Thing: A piece of advice from a successful and well-known urban farmer. This page offers one thing you can do to live more sustainably right now.
  • Road Trip: Urban Farm visits one city or town in every issue and focuses on its sustainability initiatives, famous urban farmers and green happenings.

I've never heard of this magazine before, but it sounds really interesting!!  

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