UC Davis today (Nov. 19) unveiled its new Pastured Poultry Farm, home to 150 young laying chickens and a living laboratory where students and researchers hope to develop innovative solutions ...
If you've been around here a while, you might remember a couple of posts about the pastured-poultry movement. Pastured poultry is new old-style: beyond cage-free, beyond free-range, it puts chickens ...
While it’s still a small market, pastured poultry — a method of raising poultry on open pastureland — has flourished in recent years as consumer demand for humanely-raised, antibiotic-free meat has ...
Georgians for Pastured Poultry—a collective of farmers, chefs, environmentalist and animal rights groups, and concerned individuals launched this year—has named this Pastured Poultry Week. Judging by ...
Mitchell McCarthy, a UC Davis agricultural and biological systems engineering student, holds a young layer chicken on his arm in front of the portable coop dubbed “the Eggmobile” at UC Davis. McCarthy ...
I get this a lot: "I understand that the things you write about are important -- but they're so depressing. Couldn't you write some, you know, good news, for a change?" So here you go: a solutions ...
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - Tucked away on the south side of Enterprise, Zach Drysdale is clearing space for his new passion. “It was once, as you can see behind me, once an overgrown, clear-cut pine ...
Gabriel Jimenez, from Puerto Rico, and Tamita Brown, from Jamaica, are a dedicated Caribbean couple who collaboratively own and operate 74 acres of farmland in Wilkes County, Georgia. Together, they ...
It's no secret that the labels on the foods we buy can be incredibly confusing. And when it comes to understanding the tags on meat products, there's a lot of information to process — especially with ...
Pastured Poultry Week returns to Charleston next month, with 15 local restaurants featuring birds raised out-of-doors on their menus. Sponsoring organization Compassion in World Farming says "pastured ...
Thanksgiving has a reputation for being a relaxing transition between two of the year’s most anticipated holidays. But for people in the poultry business, this easy-going perception isn’t on the table ...