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Locally Laid
- How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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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.
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- Shelagh Howell
- 2021-04-03
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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