Resources

Local Urban Chicken Organizations
Chicken Peeps Facebook Group
Support Chickens and Bees Facebook Group
Pittsburgh Coop Tour Facebook Page
Old Pittsburgh Poultry Site 
Uniontown Poultry Association
Forest Hills Facebook Group

Places to Buy Organic Chicken Feed 
Green Circle Farm  (no organic certification) 
Countryside Organics (by mail)
Glenshaw Feed and Garden Center
One Stop Nature Shop (724-542-4545)
LP Bio Ag (not reliable source)

Places to Buy Hay/Straw
Craigslist
Soergel Orchards
Home Depot
Or seek help on our forum

Chicken Purchasing, Feed, and Help Websites 
Backyard Chickens
Murray McMurray
My Pet Chicken
Countryside Organics
Or seek help on our forum


Home & Garden Materials
Construction Junction
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse
Pittsburgh Freecycle
Steel City Soils
Agrecycle
Pittsburgh Permaculture
Or check out your local nursery

City/State Resources 
Penn State Extension Office
PASA
City of Pittsburgh Empty Lot Initiative

City of Pittsburgh Garden Waiver Initiative
City of Pittsburgh ServePGH
Green Up Pittsburgh 
Allegheny Green 
URA Sustainability and Green Design 
URA Open Space  
City Lots
Or check out your local Community Development Organization  

Articles

Meet Real Free-Range Eggs
Small Farmers Creating a New Business Model as Agriculture Goes Local

A Mediocre Farm Bill
Is an Egg for Breakfast Worth This?
Arsenic in Our Chicken?
“Food Sovereignty” law passed in small Maine town to allow sale of locally produced food without interference of regulators
French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste
Even Dairy Farming has a 1 Percent

Gardening and Urban Agriculture Organizations
Pittsburgh Garden Experiment
Grow Pittsburgh
Gtech Strategies
Burgh BeesMon Valley Micro Farms
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy: Gardens & Greenspaces
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh: Gardening Thyme
Good Food NeighborhoodTree Pittsburgh
Treevitalize Pittsburgh
Hazelwood Food Forest

Italian Garden Project

Local Food Organizations 

Farm to Table
Just Harvest
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Pittsburgh Public Market in the Strip
East End Food Co-Op
PA Buy Fresh Buy Local
Or check out your local farmer's market


Urban Farming Ordinances
Pittsburgh's Ordinances 1
Pittsburgh Ordinances 2
Examples of Other Cities' Ordinances (scroll down)
Land Stewardship Project
Pets with Benefits

Pittsburgh Community Gardens
Allentown Community Garden
Bellevue Community Garden
Braddock Farms
Brighton Heights City Growers
Clairton City Growers
East Liberty Enright Garden 
Frick Park Community Garden
Hill City Growers
Homewood City Growers

Homewood Community Garden
Landslide Community Farm
Lawrenceville City Growers Organic Community Garden
McKees Rocks Growers
Millvale City Growers 

Natrona Heights City Growers
Penn Hills City Growers 
South Side Slopes Bandi Schaum Park Community Garden Plots 
Uptown City Growers 
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Community Gardens
West Mifflin Area Community Garden
Wilkinsburg City Growers
Wilkinsburg Community Engagement Gardens
More: Map

Pittsburgh Urban Farms 
Garden Dreams
Churchview Farm
Knotweed Farm
Healcrest Urban Farm
Arlington Acres
Workerbird Blog

Rural Farms 
Under Construction

CSA's
Under Construction

Gardening Training
Phipps
Chatham University: Master of Arts in Food Studies
Bidwell Training Center: Horticulture Technology
Penn State Extension: Master Gardener Program