However, for some, it is the actual design that provides the biggest draw. Frederik Bruinewoud and his partner Jack van Abeelen live in a Gerrit Rietveld-designed glass-and-steel house built in 1938 in Blaricum, outside Amsterdam. They spotted the “Breed Retreat,” a four-story wooden chicken hut designed by Dutch architect Frederik Roijé, and thought it would blend in perfectly with their house. They now have four chickens, which produce 14-20 eggs a week. “Most chicken houses are nice if you have a farm, but this one looked fabulous and fit our home, with its Cubist design and glass front,” says Mr. Bruinewoud. “I am very fond of animals. I adore my girls. They are so funny. I can stare at them for one hour and just laugh. They are free to run around, but they always go back there, so it must be a nice place for them.”
Similar sentiments provoked Berliner Mark Kohfink to start producing his own honey. “My grandpa had bees,” he says. “When I was a child, I went in winter to the beehive; it was warm and smelled good because of the honey.” Mr. Kohfink bought his own beehives, including one of Omlet’s Beehauses (from £495), in January and now produces up to five tons of honey a year from his rooftop in central Berlin, selling what he doesn’t keep to local restaurants.
Her 30-meter garden in Hampstead also provides her with abundant fruit and vegetables, and she is considering keeping chickens. “There is nothing better than fresh vegetables out of the garden; it makes you feel vital, alive. I eat so well. All my garden is organic, the compost is unbelievable,” says Ms. Roddick. “I believe that everybody is becoming more proactive. You cannot shop your way into happiness; growing your own like this is sustenance for the soul and you cannot attach a price to it.”
Sam Roddick, co-founder of London boutique Coco de Mer and daughter of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, is also passionate about the preservation of the honey bee. She is part of a new campaign entitled “Bee Lovely,” run by natural-remedy store Neal’s Yard, which aims to help address the problems facing bees and educate those who want to keep them. “I went to the Natural Beekeeping Trust course a few years ago and, soon after, started transforming my garden,” Ms. Roddick says. She has planted what she calls a “bee buffet” in her London garden, including lavender, rosemary, thyme and hawthorne, and plans to start keeping bees there soon.
She does, and also manages to inject her trademark sense of humor. (In Saturday’s episode, she jokes about using a highfalutin word like “chiffonade” when prepping the basil for her salad.) Drummond’s charm lies in her relaxed, easygoing style. She doesn’t consider herself a chef-y type, embraces easy-to-get ingredients and no-fuss recipes. She considers it a compliment when readers tweak her dishes to please their own families.
Drummond is better known by her online moniker, the Pioneer Woman, also the name of her wildly popular blog where the former USC student writes humorously and affectionately about being a woman who once held big-city dreams and now wrangles with the world of country living. It logs more than 20 million page views per month — making it one of the most well-read food and lifestyle blogs — and has turned Drummond into a publishing sensation.
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