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  • Locally Laid

  • How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
  • Auteur(s): Lucie B. Amundsen
  • Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
  • Durée: 8 h et 27 min
  • 4,3 out of 5 stars (7 évaluations)

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Locally Laid

Auteur(s): Lucie B. Amundsen
Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
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How a Midwestern family with no agriculture experience went from a few backyard chickens to a full-fledged farm - and discovered why local chicks are better.

When Lucie Amundsen had a rare night out with her husband, she never imagined what he'd tell her over dinner - that his dream was to quit his office job (with benefits!) and start a commercial-scale pasture-raised egg farm. His entire agricultural experience consisted of raising five backyard hens, none of whom had yet laid a single egg.

To create this pastured poultry ranch, the couple scrambles to acquire nearly 2,000 chickens - all named Lola. These hens, purchased commercially, arrive bereft of basic chicken-like instincts, such as the evening urge to roost. The newbie farmers also deal with their own shortcomings, making for a failed inspection and intense struggles to keep livestock alive (much less laying) during a brutal winter. But with a heavy dose of humor, they learn to negotiate the highly stressed no-man's-land known as middle agriculture. Amundsen sees firsthand how these midsized farms, situated between small-scale operations and mammoth factory farms, are vital to rebuilding America's local food system.

With an unexpected passion for this dubious enterprise, Amundsen shares a messy, wry, and entirely educational story of the unforeseen payoffs (and frequent pitfalls) of one couple's ag adventure - and many, many hours spent wrangling chickens.

©2016 Lucie B. Amundsen (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"Narrator Kate Reading is excellent at capturing Amundsen's emotions as she deals with financial hardships, physical fatigue, and endless farm-related issues while discovering the joy in trying to create positive change. During the more technical passages, Reading slows the pace and reads with crisp enunciation, making the material easy to understand." ( AudioFile)

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A surprised education

Wow, I felt like I just received an education on farming and chickens that I had not anticipated. I have chickens myself, but did not know so much of what was explained from the biology to the farming to the sales. It was wonderful. And I wasn’t expecting it either since I thought this would have been a story about hating farming and then loving it, but it was so much more. I highly recommend it

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