Food Chain Radio Show #1159

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist

Urban Chickens

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Guest: Lisa Steele, FreshEggsDaily.com

A few years ago I took the three-hour drive from Washinton, DC to visit the Polyface Farm of Joel and Teresa Salatin in Swope, Virginia.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Urban Chickens in the City

I arrived to find that a pasture had been turned into a parking lot and that many of the parked cars had DC area license plates.

At the farm I found a long line of people standing at the entrance to a barn, and having been a sailor, I did what sailors do, I got in line!

The person waiting in front of me was a well-tended middle-aged woman who, given the clothing she was wearing, was most likely from the big city.

I said to her, “Excuse me, but why are we all standing in this line?”

“We’re standing in line to get chickens, of course!” she replied.

“Are you from D.C?” I asked.

“Yes,” she answered.

“You drove 3 hours to buy chickens?”

“No, no, no!” she answered. “I drove 3 hours to buy Salatin chickens!”

Later that day, Joel showed me why people drove three hours to buy his chickens, and by the end of my stay at Polyface Farm, I was wondering at the advisability of stuffing a few of those chickens in my suitcase for the flight back to the West Coast. That experience leads me to ask…

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Tune in here, for the syndicated the Michael Olson Food Chain Radio Show #1159 August 18, 2018 Saturday 9AM Pacific