Backyard Chickens and Urban Farming

Today Stew found this site and sent it to me, so I share it with you:
The Greenhorns

This second site I found the other day and thought it was a lot of fun:
The City Chicken

Finally, this is a really neat blog that I put as an RSS feed on my iGoogle because it puts up really interesting articles:
City Farmer News

These are all interesting site about urban farming, young farmers, and some of the current agricultural movement that's going on in our country. Over the last few days they got me thinking about a lot of things like farming that I could do, sustainable living, and where I fit into this whole scheme.
I think that ever since Stew and I moved back to CA we have been finding ourselves amongst the bizarre culture of 20-somethings here. Chico seems to run the gamut from ultra-new-age-hippie to uber-conservative-"screw the planet"-consumer-types. We are both interested in the urban farming movement and are currently figuring out ways to get more out of our tiny yard. At the same time however, we aren't quite ready to stop enjoying In-N-Out burgers or our occasional trips to Costco. Are there ways that we can enjoy the best of both of these worlds? I am hoping that as we as a society figure out ways to fix the sh*t we've messed up, we can also find some happy mediums. I am totally behind changing the way we treat our urban environments, but I still would kind of like to be able to get a "double double with onions" once in a while. I can only hope that with a bit of my own help, my generation will be the one to find that middle ground.

Stew and I in front of the worlds largest artichoke in Castroville, CA.
I felt this was an appropriate picture for a rant on farming.