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Save My Chickens: Take Action Against NAIS

Eat Local, Farmers Market Fare, Food Industry, Food Safety / By Cate Nelson

I’m sitting in my backyard, surrounded by chickens and children. A couple of dogs periodically pester both species of livestock. (Yes, I did just call my child flock “livestock.”) I’m waiting on the first egg of the day, a pink speckled one from my oldest Americana hen. This backyard chicken experiment is new to my …

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Farmers Market Fare 9

Eat Local, Farmers Market Fare / By Beth Bader

We’re into early summer, now, and I know this, not by the rise in temperature, but because we’ve gotten the last bit of asparagus for the year and the first of the summer squash. Summer squash is one of the most prolific of vegetables, always seems like there are more squash each week than I …

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