Backyard animals

Battle Creek residents may soon be able to keep hens, rabbits, miniature goats, and honey bees in their back yards. City commissioners are holding a…

Michigan’s second largest city will welcome backyard chickens beginning this spring.In the summer of 2010, Grand Rapids city commissioners narrowly…

On Tuesday, elected leaders in Grand Rapids could vote to allow people to keep chickens in their backyards.“I’m excited,” Amy Bowditch said of the…

One of Flint’s leading urban farmers is being told she has to get rid of her chickens.Roxanne Adair operates a commercial urban farm in Flint. She sells…

Recent changes in the Michigan right-to farm requirements have drawn criticisms from those worried it may curtail their ability to keep bees, chickens, or…

A state board is likely to make a decision today on a controversial rule that would end certain legal protections for people raising chickens and other…

Life could soon get a little harder for backyard farmers.A law passed in 1981 protects Michigan farmers from nuisance lawsuits. It’s called the Right to…

Many small and urban farms could lose the protection of Michigan's Right to Farm Act.The Act protects farmers against nuisance lawsuits if they follow…