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Chickens to the Rescue- How Keeping Chickens Can Fuel The Local Food 
Revolution! Interview with Patricia Foreman Sustainable World Radio

http://pdcastsusworldradio.libsyn.com/chickens-to-the-rescue-how-keeping-chickens-can-fuel-the-local-food-revolution-

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.

*Patricia Foreman/Good Earth Publications Website/ 
http://www.goodearthpublications.com/*
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G/ ot Chickens?  A desire for sustainable, clean, wholesome food, and 
superior soil quality, has led more and more suburban and city dwellers 
to keep laying hens in their backyards and gardens.  Across America 
municipalities are allowing, and even encouraging, residents to keep 
laying hens within city limits.

Listen to Patricia Foreman, author of */City Chicks~Keeping Micro-flocks 
of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local 
Food Suppliers/, * as she shares her humor, passion, and extensive 
knowledge about raising chickens in the cities and suburbs of America.

Patricia Foreman graduated from Purdue University with degrees in 
Pharmacy and Agriculture.  At Indiana University's Graduate School of 
Public and Environmental Affairs she earned a Master of Public Affairs 
degree, with majors in Health Systems Administration and International 
Affairs. She completed the Virginia Master Gardener's program in 1999 
and a Permaculture Design Course with Bill Mollison 1991.

Pat has kept poultry for over 20 years. Her experience includes 
operating a small-scale farm raising free range, organic layers, 
broilers and turkeys. She keeps a backyard flock of heritage chickens.  
Pat is also the co-author of "Chicken Tractor, Day Range Poultry, 
Backyard Market Gardening,  and A Tiny Home to Call Your Own".


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*Patricia Foreman/Good Earth Publications Website/ 
http://www.goodearthpublications.com

/**Chicken Whisperer Backyard Poultry and Sustainable Lifestyles Talk 
Show* www.chickenwhisperer.net/ <http://www.chickenwhisperer.net/>. */

/*Patricia Foreman Book Tour Nov. 14-Dec 20 CA, AZ ,NM Tour Organizer 
www.sbpermaculture.org
Official tour sponsor, Permaculture Credit Union www.pcuonline.org 
<http://www.pcuonline.org/>

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