Redding artist and interior re-designer Shelly Shively’s urban farm basket features a dozen eggs from her happy, healthy backyard chickens and a jar of honey from her own beehives. She includes her own artistically created items inspired by her beloved… Continue Reading
Shelly Shively and I are twins, but not just any twins. We’re a rare variety called “mirror twins” a subset of identical twins. As kids, we’d lose the same tooth on the same day, but on the opposite side. We… Continue Reading
My hens are laying up a storm now that storms have arrived in our part of the world. I welcome both! Shrove Tuesday is February 17th this year, so the Lenten Season is here. Every year Shrove Tuesday arrives –… Continue Reading
Every year Shrove Tuesday arrives – the day before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, the Catholic/Anglican/Episcopal 40-day season of thoughtful repentance and fasting before Easter – and I think to myself: “it’s pancakes for dinner tonight.” Photo: Two… Continue Reading
I’m not naming names, but some Redding residents may have violated city codes when they raised backyard chickens in modest suburban lots less than 20,000 square feet — spaces far smaller than the previously required half an acre for such fowl activities. Backyard chickens were… Continue Reading
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