Re: Chicken Trend

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One more contact you might enjoy is the Chicken Whisperer. He has the show  
before America's Home Grown Veggie Show on Radio sandy Springs  (8 till 10, 
 I think) and has a great audience. This spring he had a raffle for a posh  
chicken house that was fun and won by someone in Oregon (I think). He has  
tweets, blogs and a blogtalkradio show as well under The Chicken Whisperer. 

Kate

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In a message dated 7/18/2009 12:34:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
vermontgardener@yahoo.com writes:

Doreen,  Ellen, GWListers,
Thanks for the connections to Grow Lively  and Mad City Chickens! So 
creative. I've got to spend some time in these  virtual places. But not on this 
rare and sunny Saturday.
Indeed, the "Chicken Trend" has been well reported. I think Bill Geist did 
a  clip on Sunday Morning, but I combed the site w/out finding a  link.
Here's what Vermont television WCAX did recently:  
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10603495
(Calling  raising a few hens "chicken farming" seems a bit much, IMHO.)
I've raised hens for, I think, nine years now -- I'm on my third batch. I  
always kept six, until last August, when Bantams were so cute and seemed to  
hardly count....I now have 12 birds in my poultry palace. If anyone needs 
an  interviewee, happy to oblige, including photos. I wrote a piece on the  
interplay between poultry and gardening, several years ago in my Vermont  
Gardener column for Gannett -- that was one of my and readers' favorites.  
While I have won a few gardenwriters' awards, I remember getting the judges  
comments back on that one saying it was too long, went on and on about the  
birds.... The judges were likely right, gardeners who add chickens to their  
landscape, just don't know when to quit!
All best,
Cheryl  Dorschner
Vermont Gardener hunt 'n' peck, hen-pecked columnist  etcetera

> This is from Ellen Wells, who write in this the  week's
> ezine Buzz! from Green Profit about an emerging trend.
>  Doreen Howard
> ----------------------------------
> Latest garden  retail trend. Chickens. And I'm serious about
> this. I first noticed  this trend a few months ago when many
> of my new Twitter followers  (@GPBuzz and @gardenquestion)
> were all about raising chickens at their  urban/suburban
> homes. Not dozens of chickens, but just enough to  provide a
> family with eggs (and eventually meat, I guess). My
>  suspicions were raised again when I spotted a chicken coop
> and two  hens at Drake's 7 Dees in Portland.
> 
> Leslie Halleck of North  Haven Gardens in Dallas is a big
> advocate of the chicken trend. She  says raising chickens is
> a natural progression of living within a  sustainable and
> healthful framework. And apparently most of the people  in
> her somewhat progressive Dallas neighborhood have coops in
>  their back yard. 
> 
> Chickens aren't something you get into just  off the cuff as
> a retailer. There's a lot of footwork that must be  done,
> such as learning about zoning laws and regulations, etc.
>  North Haven doesn't have chickens wandering around the
> nursery; they  have partnered with someone who does the
> chicken sales. What North  Haven does offer, however, are
> classes on raising chickens, resources  for chicken owners,
> some chicken "hardware" (feed troughs, waterers,  etc.) and
> branded feed products. Check out the Backyard  Chickens
> category on Leslie's Grow Lively blog to find out all  about
> her chicken experi_ences! Oh, and definitely expect a  Chicken
> Retail 101 article in an upcoming issue of Green Profit.  
> 
> Thoughts on chickens? I want to hear them-e-mail me at  
ewells@ballpublishing.com.

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