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Sarah loves ‘magical sauerkraut’ and makes it regularly with freshly picked cabbages from the garden. Using her knowledge of nutrition and bartending, she shows us how to make a Krautini.

Krautini Recipe:
2 shots vodka
1 shot home-made sauerkraut juice
ice

Combine ingredients into martini shaker and pour into a glass and enjoy. Garnish with olives and a sprig of sauerkraut.

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The New Coop de Ville
By Jessica Bennett, NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 17, 2008

As it turns out, Mackin is hardly an anomaly, in New York or any other urban center. Over the past few years, urban dwellers driven by the local-food movement, in cities from Seattle to Albuquerque, have flocked to the idea of small-scale backyard chicken farming—mostly for eggs, not meat—as a way of taking part in home-grown agriculture. This past year alone, grass-roots organizations in Missoula, Mont.; South Portland, Maine; Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Ft. Collins, Colo., have successfully lobbied to overturn city ordinances outlawing backyard poultry farming, defined in these cities as egg farming, not slaughter. Ann Arbor now allows residents to own up to four chickens (with neighbors’ consent), while the other three cities have six-chicken limits, subject to various spacing and nuisance regulations.

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