Green Calgary

The Birds & the Bees

Links:

Apiaries and Bees for Communities: a Calgary-based site dedicated to bringing small-scale hobby apiculture to the city of Calgary through educational events! A.B.C is eager to make Calgary a greener and more diverse habitat for everyone and everything that calls this city their home: this includes bees, plant life, and human life.

Calgary and District Beekeepers Association: The focus of the association is beekeeping in southern Alberta and Calgary in particular. The club hosts both formal and informal monthly meetings and organizes group/club buys of nucs and bee supplies.

Bucky Buckaw's Backyard Chicken Broadcast: a show dedicated to providing information on raising backyard chickens. Through this segment, Bucky Buckaw informs listeners about the downside of factory farming and what kinds of toxic chemicals you can expect to find in the resultant livestock. Bucky also promotes organic gardening and composting, and supporting local farmers. He shares fascinating chicken lore from the millennia that will fascinate even those with no interest in birds.

CLUCK (Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub):a local group advocating for changes to the bylaw to allow the keeping of a small flock of egg-laying chickens within Calgary's city limits.

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Videos:

Raising Urban Chickens