One of the Whitest Kids U'Know is an urban farmer

[Oggie]

Timmy Williams has a glass-front chicken brooder in one corner of his living room and a rabbit in a cage in another. The guest room is dominated by a table full of just-sprouted lettuce, broccoli, spinach and kale soaking up grow-light. And the fridge in the step-in kitchen holds his own home-brewed ginger beer, along with a freshly made pumpkin pie. He’s particularly proud of the pie.

“I’m trying to prove,” Williams says, “that you can be bad-*** AND bake.”

Which is funny. And explains why the shelf by the TV includes at least one boxed set of DVDs with Williams’ picture on its cover.

The newest urban farmer in Rose City is also a TV star. Williams, 28, is one-fifth of The Whitest Kids U’Know, a New York-based comedy troupe he joined as a college student in 2001.

The group is still together, and Williams will soon rejoin his mates to write and shoot their show’s fifth season. But he won’t be away for long: Portland’s relaxed pace, and the balance between funky oddities, cosmopolitan culture and the balm of nature, won him and his wife Kristin, 30, over for good.“We want to grow our own food, raise our own animals and make stuff on our own. We’ve already made our own cheese, our own pickles and pizza dough.”

Along the way he’s making himself into what may be an entirely new breed.

“I want to be a comedian-farmer.”

From: http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainm...nds_white.html