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cover of episode Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food Revolution!

Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food Revolution!

2011/11/24
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Sustainable World Radio- Ecology and Permaculture Podcast

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Chicken expert and admirer Pat Foreman shares why she believes that chickens are an integral part of the local food movement.  Foreman, author of the books *City Chicks *and Chicken Tractor- The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil, talks about how chickens are talented composters, soil builders, living fertilizer machines, and bio-recyclers. Listeners beware!  According to Foreman, chickens are also the gateway to other livestock.