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3 Artists Find Food On Rainy Days … Local Painters Paint Food

The Newburyport Daily News has a nice story today about 3 local painters who go up to Maine to paint out doors. When the weather doesn’t cooperate they are forced to improvise [no probs, they are artists after all]. So they start painting all the food and cooking utensils they can find in the kitchen of [...]

Community Garden Update … Tonight’s Newburyport City Council Meeting

LFN is grateful to  the Newburyport City Council for receiving for their consideration our proposal for community garden spaces in the City neighborhoods. And thanks also to Elizabeth Marcus representing Transition Newburyport and Erin Stack director of the New Eden Community Gardens in Newbury. Both these ladies were eloquent in supporting the resilience, self reliance, and [...]

City Says No To Backyard Chickens … A Blow To Local Food? Or Common Sense Zoning?

Backyard Chickens were ordered removed from the backlyard of a young man on Curzon Mill Rd. in Newburyport. According to an interesting story  by Katie Curley in today’s Newburyport Daily News . The young man, Ian E., has been an animal lover for years and was keeping 35 chickens including some roosters in his backyard. Responding to a complaint The [...]