San Francisco Metblogs » chickens http://sf.metblogs.com Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 That cluck you hear http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/08/18/that-cluck-you-hear/ http://sf.metblogs.com/2009/08/18/that-cluck-you-hear/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:33:45 +0000 Mark Pritchard http://sf.metblogs.com/?p=5994 The urban chicken renaissance — an impressive phrase that just means that city people have begun in larger numbers to keep backyard chickens again — has come to Oakland foodies, according to an LA Times article about the Temescal District’s Pizzaiolo restaurant (map).

SFGate was on this trend in February. And in fact, if you search for “backyard chicken coops” in Google News, you’ll get dozens of articles from cities across the country. They’re doing it everywhere.

Like most trends, however, it probably started in the Mission District. A friend of mine on Shotwell has been keeping chickens — almost secretly at first, but now more openly as it becomes more widely accepted — for three years.

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